In NHS Leeds v Larner, the Court of Appeal has sought to ensure consistency in the approach of employment tribunals to the holiday pay rights of workers whose employment is terminated after extended periods of sick leave. A clerical officer…
The Lands Tribunal has held that a landlord was unable to recover insurance rent from the tenant because the landlord had not complied with its insurance obligations under the lease. The lease required that the landlord insure the property in…
Lord Judge, the Lord Chief Justice has announced that damages awarded in PI, nuisance and defamation cases will rise by 10% from next year. “We take this opportunity to declare that, with effect from 1 April 2013, the proper level…
DFA Law has advised the shareholders of Chesham Holdings Limited on the sale of its entire share capital to Bartleet Enterprises Limited for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1965 and based in the Northern Home Counties, Chesham Insurance acts for…
An Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision clarifying the statutory definition of redundancy will be welcomed by business owners. The EAT confirmed that it is not necessary to have a reduction in the number of employees carrying out work of a…
The Court of Appeal has ruled that workers who have been on sick leave for more than a year are entitled to reclaim their holiday allowance in the next leave year, regardless of whether they have formally requested it. The…
The High Court has refused summary judgment in a claim to enforce a document which the claimant argued was a performance bond. The court held that the defendant had an arguable case that the document was a guarantee, not a…
Businesses with subsidiaries should be notified of the first reported case in which a parent company was found liable to an employee of its subsidiary on tort law principles. The Court of Appeal held that the parent company owed a…
A Northern Irish company has been prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Corporate Manslaughter Act 2007) and fined £187,500, plus £13,000 costs, over the death of an employee. The employee was killed after being hit by…
In a recent case an employer dismissed a senior employee due to a breakdown in the working relationship with a payment in lieu of notice. It was then discovered that the employer could have dismissed the employee for gross misconduct…
