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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Case Report: BAE Systems (Operations) Ltd v Konczak [2017] EWCA Civ 1188

Apportionment of liability; psychiatric injury; pre-existing illness ‘The tone of Underhill LJ’s judgment is that it will be difficult to convince a court that apportionment is not going to be possible.’ This case revisits the vexed question of divisibility of psychiatric (and other) injury. It is an employment case of wide importance and application. The …
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