Employment
Page v Lord Chancellor and another [2021] EWCA Civ 254, [2021] All ER (D) 66 (Mar)
The appellant was removed as a magistrate because he had declared publicly that, in dealing with cases involving adoption by same-sex couples he would proceed, not on the basis of the law or the evidence, but on the basis of his own preconceived beliefs about such adoptions. The Court of Appeal Civil Division held that the Employment Appeal Tribunal had been entitled to uphold a finding of the employment tribunal that the appellant’s dismissal as a magistrate had not been the result of victimisation.
Estoppel
Howe and another v Gossop and another [2021] EWHC 637 (Ch), [2021] All ER (D) 95 (Mar)
The appellant landowners failed in their appeal against a judge’s decision that, following an oral agreement between the parties, the appellant would transfer two additional pieces of land to the respondents in return for the waiver of their obligation to pay a certain sum to the respondent, a proprietary estoppel
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