Health and Safety at Work Act leading cases (4) Reasonable practicability R v Nelson Group Services (Maintenance) Ltd (1999) N Ltd...

The “rule of law” has been defined to mean that no man is above the law. This principle is critically undermined by the concept of Crown...

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Remote hearings Summary of most recent provisions Hearings may take place in a wholly or partly remote basis. Wholly...

SUPREME COURT Illegality defence Case Ecila Henderson (A Protected Party, by her litigation friend, The Official Solicitor) v Dorset...

TIME OFF TO LOOK FOR WORK Employees with at least two years continuous employment are entitled to reasonable time off during a redundancy...

The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment)...

REDUNDANCY & DISCRIMINATION Age Discrimination Kirk v Citibank 3200291/2018, East London Employment Tribunal Facts Citibank made K...

Agreed procedures Jackson v General Accident, Fire & Life Assurance Co Ltd [1976] IRLR 338, EAT: The meaning of agreed procedure,...

Evidence of decision Agarwal v Cardiff University UKEAT/0115/19/RN A, a clinical senior lecturer employed by C, was dismissed for...

Failure to consult with an individual may make dismissal unfair but compensation may be reduced (Polkey reduction) where it made no...

UNFAIR REDUNDANCY DISMISSAL Automatically unfair dismissal for specified reasons No genuine redundancy situation Failure to consult...

Suitable Alternative Employment Unreasonable refusal of suitable alternative employment results in loss of statutory redundancy pay. S....

Closure of the workplace An employee is dismissed for redundancy if it is attributable wholly or mainly to the fact that the employer has...

REDUNDANCY: AN OUTLINE OF LAW AND PRACTICE Redundancy, like much of employment law, is an increasingly complex concept. Its legal...

REAL RISK Death of child R v Porter (2008) P was the headmaster of a private school aged 3 to 16. The school had two playgrounds, access...

PRACTICABLE Stricter standard Adsett v K & L Steel Founders and Engineers Ltd (1953) A worked in a foundry. His job was to shovel various...

IN THE COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT Work away from employer’s premises General Cleaning Contractors Ltd v Christmas (1952) C was cleaning a sash...

Worker paralysed in roof fall: two companies fined £540,000 Health and Safety Executive v Grangewood Builders Ltd and Trenchco Ltd (2018)...

ACCIDENT Back injury caused by repeated lifting of patients Mullen v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (2002) M was employed as an...

This compilation of interesting cases dealing with health and safety aspects of floors, passages and stairs, has been compiled by...