Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills Ltd
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Year | 1991 |
| Date | 1991 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Northern Ireland) |
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6 cases
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Mr B Garcha-Singh v British Airways plc: 3313382/2019
...mechanism is provided for in the contract of employment, as the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal held in Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills [1991] IRLR 348. The court in that case attached importance to the fact that the employees’ handbook, compiled by the management in consultation with their......
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Mr B Garcha-Singh v British Airways Plc
...down Mr Garcha-Singh v British Airways Plc employment, as the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal held in Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills [1991] IRLR 348, [1991] 7 NIJB 21. The court in that case attached importance to the fact that the employees’ handbook, complied by the management in consult......
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Gwynedd Council v Shelley Barratt and Ioan Hughes
...of the issue of whether the employer was acting reasonably in the circumstances of the case. 32. Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills [1991] IRLR 348 dealt with the Fair Employment (Northern Ireland) Act 1989 so different legislation applied. The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland determined tha......
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Mr K Girdwood v Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd (UK): 2423783/2017
...(para 1) and it has long been held that an appeal is not a requisite for a fair redundancy procedure (Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills Ltd [1991] IRLR 348, NICA, paras 22-30 per Hutton LCJ). In Taskforce (Finishing & Handling) Ltd v Love, EATS/0001/05, 20 May 2005 (unreported), the EAT emphas......
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2 firm's commentaries
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Will A Redundancy Dismissal Without Appeal Always Be Unfair?
...necessarily render a redundancy dismissal unfair, in this case, it did. The case confirms the decision in Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills [1991] IRLR 348 which held that absence of appeal in redundancy cases would not always render the dismissal unfair. However, Gwynedd differs from that cas......
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Will A Redundancy Dismissal Without Appeal Always Be Unfair?
...necessarily render a redundancy dismissal unfair, in this case, it did. The case confirms the decision in Robinson v Ulster Carpet Mills [1991] IRLR 348 which held that absence of appeal in redundancy cases would not always render the dismissal unfair. However, Gwynedd differs from that cas......