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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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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys—Maggie Kwok & George Weston

Harneys senior leadership appointments

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths—Keith Browne & Jim Jordan

Freeths strengthens London Construction and Engineering practice with two strategic senior hires

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins—Laura Moss

Anthony Collins announces strategic hire to deepen skills base in the social business sector

NEWS
More than 100 teams from the legal and financial services sectors competed in five sports at the 51st Law Society RFC Festival of Sport earlier this month
Part-time status need only be an effective cause of less favourable treatment, rather than the sole cause, the Supreme Court has held in Augustine v Data Cars
Britain’s new acknowledgement that Israel’s occupation is unlawful, and accompanying settlement-goods ban and sanctions, is significant but overdue, argue Danny Friedman KC and Victor Kattan in NLJ this week
New planning fee rises, wider trade union access rights and a service-by-email trap feature in Stephen Gold’s latest Civil Way
Existing defamation law can respond to AI ‘hallucinations’, but allocating responsibility will prove harder where outputs reach users without human intervention
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