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The Court of Appeal has held that an employee's failure to follow instructions and report a significant risk issue undermined trust and confidence to such an extent that the employer was entitled to terminate the employee's employment without notice (Dunn v AAH Ltd
The foreword to the ACAS Code of Practice on Disciplinary and Grievance Procedures explains that the Code applies to dismissals and disciplinary situations including misconduct andor capability
The EAT has held, in the case of Davies v Sandwell MBC, that where the employee had not appealed against a final written warning, it did not make the warning automatically valid, but the employment tribunal could take into account the validity of that warning in deciding whether a subsequent dismissal was fair
In a warning shot to anyone tempted to be overly creative in the discovery of documents or to avoid the truth in order to bolster their defence to a claim, an individual has been sentenced to 4 months in prison for perverting the course of justice during employment tribunal proceedings
The Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) has handed down its decision in a case concerning justification of a compulsory retirement age of 67 in Sweden
