Discipline And Grievance: A substantial issue

The EAT has revisited the vexed question of whether the Acas Code of Practice applies to dismissals for ‘some other substantial reason’, write Sarah Lamont and James Gutteridge ‘The question of whether a dismissal is caught by the Code is significant when an employment tribunal makes a finding of unfair dismissal and then turns its …
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Tribunal Procedure: Lessons from recent case law

Charles Wynn-Evans reports on some new decisions on employment tribunal procedure ‘It cannot be right to allow a case which otherwise has no reasonable prospect of success to proceed simply on the basis that “something may turn up” during the course of the hearing.’ There has been plenty of coverage of the new employment tribunal …
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