Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1999
Year1999
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)

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12 cases
  • Jackson v Liverpool City Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 June 2011
    ...goes to the overall balance of the reference and any opinion contained within it. Going back to Lord Goff in SpringBartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246 and that he failed to consider whether taken as a whole the reference was misleading or inaccurate. In that regard he fu......
  • Robin Joseph Lee v National Westminster Bank Plc
    • United Kingdom
    • King's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 15 July 2024
    ...semantic) between job references and credit references, thereby following the approach of the Court of Appeal in Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246, a decision which followed the approach of the House of Lords in Spring v Guardian Assurance [1994] ICR 596. In the Bartho......
  • AB v A Chief Constable
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 16 June 2014
    ...components of a reference are factually correct it may yet give an unfair or misleading impression overall: Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246, [22]. A duty to provide information arises where, without it, a relevant statement made within the context of an assumption of......
  • Ramesh s/o Krishnan AXA Life Insurance Singapore Pte Ltd
    • Singapore
    • Court of Appeal (Singapore)
    • 27 July 2016
    ...but also not unfair when taken as a whole: see the decisions of the English Court of Appeal in Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246 (“Bartholomew”) and Cox v Sun Alliance Life Ltd [2001] IRLR 448 (“Cox”); the decision of the English High Court in Kidd v AXA Equity & Law L......
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  • Employment Matters - Easter 2012
    • Ireland
    • Mondaq Ireland
    • 23 April 2012
    ...Jackson throws further light on Spring v Guardian Assurance plc [1994] IRLR 460 HL and Bartholomew v London Borough of Hackney [1999] IRLR 246 authorities which reflect the view that in general, an employer is under no legal duty to provide a character reference for an employee or ex-employ......