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Employment law brief: 8 February 2018

08 February 2018 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7780 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Ian Smith takes some time out to get serious about the trajectory of pension litigation, unfair dismissal & injury to feelings damages

  • Pension equality: macro issues at a micro level?
  • Unfair dismissal of a fixed-term employee.
  • Tribunal jurisdiction to construe a contract.
  • Injury to feelings damages available in all detriment cases.

What a way to treat a distinguished High Court judge in his retirement. There was Sir Alan Wilkie sitting harmlessly at home watching Escape to the Country when agents of the state broke in and put a chloroform mask over him, so strong that he only woke up a day later shackled to the judge’s chair in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) and made to hear the joined appeals in two cases of such complexity that they evoke in any readers the prescient statement of Monty Python’s Professor Gumby —‘My brain hurts’. The cases are Lord Chancellor v McCloud UKEAT/0071/17 and Sargeant v London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority UKEAT/0116/17, both of which constituted major test cases

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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