Contracts of employment Limitation Periods: Offers; Repudiation  SBHA Ltd attempted to negotiate changes to terms and conditions of employment with the recognized trade unions over a two-year period. As agreement could not be reached, SBHA Ltd arranged meetings with employees. On 18 September 2019, it wrote a letter to employees giving them the opportunity to…

Unfair Dismissal Redundancy  Right of appeal Determining fairness in the circumstance under 98(4) of ERA 1996 The absence of an opportunity to appeal does not of itself make a redundancy dismissal unfair; absence of an appeal is one of many factors to be considered in determining fairness. In the instant case, an employment judge was…

Judgment concerning an appeal against a registrar’s order which granted an extension of time to a Claimant. The extension had been granted to allow the Claimants to appeal a decision despite their failure to comply with the Employment Appeal Tribunal Practice Directions. A claim form submitted by the Claimant was deemed to have been submitted…

Appeal concerning a Claimant’s complaints that they had been subject to direct discrimination on grounds of disability via their dismissal, amongst other issues including a failure to make reasonable adjustments and harassment relating to disability. The Claimant had been dismissed by the Respondent and brought several claims under the Equality Act 2010. These claims were…

Judgment relating to an appeal against the rejection and reconsideration of a series of claim forms with incomplete early conciliation numbers. On 14 November 2019, the Employment Tribunal (ET) rejected a series of claims on the basis that they had failed to provide a full ACAS early conciliation number or confirm that the provision of…

Justices Lord Reed (President), Lord Hodge (Deputy President), Lord Lloyd-Jones, Lord Kitchin, Lord Burrows Recession  Economic duress Background to the Appeal The issue in this appeal is whether, and if so in what circumstances, a party can set aside a contract on the ground that it was entered into as a result of the other…