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Court of Appeal endorses application of Postcomm's statutory fining guidelines

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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March 3 2008

Following a review of Royal Mail's mail integrity procedures, Postcomm proposed to fine Royal Mail £11.38m in February 2006

University warns students over abuse of online networking sites

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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August 23 2007

Keele University issued a warning via e-mail to its students in May that any defamatory messages about staff on various online social networking sites such as Facebook might result in disciplinary action

A question of political judgement? Judicial review and the Ombudsman

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 3 2007

In our increasingly litigious society, a complaint to the Ombudsman is typically viewed as a means of seeking a political, rather than legal, remedy in cases of maladministration

Bill briefing: the Pensions Bill

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 22 2007

The Pensions Bill 2006-7 was introduced on 28 November 2006 and was read for the second time in the House of Commons on 16 January 2007

Reasonable adjustments swapping jobs

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 11 2010

In the recent case of Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police v Jelic, the EAT held that a reasonable adjustment for the purposes of the Disability Discrimination Act can include swapping the job of a disabled employee with that of another employee

Civil Service Compensation Scheme reformed

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 26 2011

The Government has announced reforms to the Civil Service Compensation Scheme, which sets out the terms of compulsory and voluntary redundancy for civil servants

Equality Act 2010: public sector Equality Duty draft regulations published

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 26 2011

The Government has confirmed that the new public sector single Equality Duty will be brought into force on schedule on 6 April 2011

Civil service redundancy payments to be capped

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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August 13 2010

The Government has "reluctantly" announced that it will legislate as soon as possible to cap redundancy pay for civil servants, bringing packages into line with best practice in the private sector

Employee remanded in custody not entitled to wages

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 10 2011

The EAT has held, in the case of Burns v Santander UK plc, that an employee who is remanded in custody for six months while awaiting trial was not entitled to claim wages for that period

Indirect discrimination and "group disadvantage"

Shepherd & Wedderburn LLP
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United Kingdom
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August 11 2011

The EAT has allowed an appeal of the case of Chatwal v Wandsworth Borough Council against a decision of the Tribunal that a requirement to clean a communal fridge did not amount to indirect religious discrimination against Sikhs, on the basis that the claimant could not show that a significant number of others of the same religion shared his belief that he could not touch or come into contact with meat, and so he could not establish "group disadvantage"

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