Discrimination: Quantifying injury to feelings awards: lessons from case law

Christopher Hitchins and Emma Phillpot consider what recent awards can tell us about the level of compensation an employer will be liable to pay for injured feelings in discrimination cases ‘Despite the Vento guidelines, it remains difficult to estimate what level of award could be made in any given situation.’ A victim of discrimination based …
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Employment: Sexual harassment in the workplace

Marianne Tutin examines how claims for sexual harassment can be brought in the civil courts, particularly if limitation is an issue for employment tribunal proceedings ‘For the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, anything done by an employee in the course of their employment is treated as having also been done by the employer.’ Since …
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