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23 March 2007
Issue: 7265 / Categories: Case law , Law digest
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EMPLOYMENT

Ezsias v North Glamorgan National Health Trust [2007] All ER (D) 104 (Mar)

It would only be in an exceptional case that a claim for unfair dismissal in the employment tribunal would be struck out as having no reasonable prospect of success when the central facts are in dispute.

Moreover, whistle-blowing cases have much in common with discrimination cases, and the approach set out by Lord Steyn in Anyanwu v South Bank Student Union [2001] UKHL 14, [2001] 2 All ER 353 (at para 24), was that “the bias in favour of [such] a claim being examined on the merits or demerits of its particular facts is a matter of high public interest”.

 

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