Recruitment: Why it’s not so easy to say, ‘You’re hired!’

Following new guidance from Acas, Gurpreet Duhra and Gemma O’Boyle consider some of the legal traps posed by the recruitment process ‘While Acas guidance is not legally binding, employment tribunals consider it to be good practice and… deviation from such guidance is likely to be subject to scrutiny.’The recruitment process presents several legal risks for …
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Cases Referenced

  • Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce v Beck [2010] UKEAT/0141/10/RN
  • Corus Hotels plc v Woodward & anor UKEAT/0536/05
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  • Dattani v Chief Constable of West Mercia Police [2005] IRLR 327