Burton and Another v De Vere Hotels

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Date1996
CourtEmployment Appeal Tribunal
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22 cases
  • MacDonald v Ministry of Defence
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 19 Junio 2003
    ...Its failure to do so constituted sex discrimination. Reliance was placed on the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal in Burton v De Vere Hotels Ltd [1997] ICR 1. In the present case the employment tribunal accepted this 28 This submission, although not calling for decision, raises a ......
  • Pearce v Governing Body of Mayfield School
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
  • R (Equal Opportunities Commission) v Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court)
    • 12 Marzo 2007
    ...Secondary School [2003] ICR 937 made it entirely clear, in respect of sex discrimination under s1 of the 1975 Act, overruling Burton v De Vere Hotels Ltd [1997] ICR 1, that an employer is not vicariously liable for discriminatory acts or omissions of a party such as a customer, client, co......
  • Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Polive v Liversidge
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 Mayo 2002
    ...by employee A was sufficiently under the control of the employer that he could have prevented what was done (see Burton v De Vere Hotels [1996] IRLR 596). 22 The provisions of the 1976 Act which expressly or arguably apply to the police are these. Section 16 in Part II makes special provisi......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Harassment at Work as Discrimination: The Current Debate in England and Wales
    • United Kingdom
    • Sage International Journal of Discrimination and the Law No. 3-2, September 1998
    • 1 Septiembre 1998
    ...s5(3)SDA.18Opcit.19 S 6(1) SDA and s 4(1) RRA.20 See Townshend-Smith (1996)International Journal of Discriminationand the Law 2,137.21 [1996] IRLR 596.22 [1997] 2 All ER 406; [1997] IRLR 168.23 Unreported, 10 September 1996, EAT/1110/95, available in LEXIS,Enggen File.29 Article 2.30 AsTowe......
  • The Liability of Employers for the Harassment of Employees by Non-Employees
    • South Africa
    • Juta Stellenbosch Law Review No. , August 2019
    • 16 Agosto 2019
    ...followed this decision) focused on the measure of control that the employer had over the work environ ment.64 Measu res to control t he 57 [1997] ICR 158 1059 1060 1986 ICR 56461 Burton and R hule v De Vere Hotels [1997] ICR 1 1062 1063 As explained above, in the USA the measu re of control......
  • Racial Harassment, Sexual Harassment, and the Expressive Function of Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 61-2, March 1998
    • 1 Marzo 1998
    ...Cowley Road, Oxford OX4 1JF and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA.236*Law School, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.1 [1996] IRLR 596.2 ‘Autonomy’, as used in the text, refers to the substantial authorship of one’s life. See J. Raz, TheMorality of Freedom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986......

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