“Saleswomen Beth Moules and Sharleen Amos, both 25, were taunted about their relationship and subjected to crude insults.”
Daily Telegraph, 7th July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A black family wrongly prosecuted for assault after the father was falsely accused of drug dealing by police outside a London theatre has won “substantial” damages and an apology from Scotland Yard, four years after the case collapsed.”
The Guardian, 4th July 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Hartlepool Borough Council v Llewellyn UKEAT/6/08; [2009] WLR (D) 216
“Male colleagues of female equal pay claimants were entitled to bring ‘piggyback’ claims using the female claimants as comparators and were able to recover sums equivalent to those awarded to the successful comparators by way of arrears. There were obvious conveniences in male contingent claims being included in the proceedings from the start. Even if technically premature in the sense of whether a cause of action had arisen, employment tribunals were empowered under s 2(1A) of the Equal Pay Act 1970 to entertain claims for declaratory relief where a dispute arose in relation to the effect of an equality clause read into a contract under s 1(1) and that would give a sufficient jurisdictional foundation for male contingent claims pending the point at which they might mature into claims for substantial relief.”
WLR Daily, 30th June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A young officer who was left paraplegic when he leapt 65 feet into a reservoir to prove his bravery has won the right to millions in compensation from the Ministry of Defence.”
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Should people who have been seriously wronged by the State — whether the police or a care home — be able to obtain redress in the shape of compensation? The Law Commission, the Government’s law reform watchdog, thinks so. Last year it put forward a series of reforms to improve justice and the quality of public services. But the Government has different ideas: it has privately just told the commission in a draft response that it has ‘significant concerns’ over the reforms as they stand and fears that they will help to create a compensation culture.”
The Times, 25th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Since the 1950s, Mau Mau has often been synonymous with atavistic savagery. It was a grassroots movement that sought to end British rule in Kenya, and with it the privileges of an African minority loyal to colonialism. Comprised almost entirely of Kikuyu – Kenya’s largest ethnic group — Mau Mau perpetrated some heinous crimes. But, so, too, did the agents of British colonialism, and on an order of magnitude that dwarfed Mau Mau acts of violence.”
The Times, 23rd June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Regina (Miller and another) v Independent Assessor [2009] EWCA Civ 609; [2009] WLR (D) 206
“In assessing the compensation payable to a victim of miscarriage of justice who in consequence had served a term of imprisonment, the independent assessor should apply principles of other civil awards in respect of similar wrongs in order to achieve legal consistency with earlier decisions, having regard to the gravity of the offence of which the victim had been wrongly convicted and the period of his incarceration.”
WLR Daily, 22nd June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A case against the British government brought by veterans of Kenya’s independence struggle will be heard at London’s High Court later.”
BBC News, 23rd June 2009
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Senior judges have ordered an increase in the amount of compensation paid to Stephen Miller, a victim of a miscarriage of justice, in a test case lawyers said would have a ‘profound effect’ on such awards.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th June 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A pregnant woman who was awarded £300 in compensation after a woman abused her at a doctor’s surgery was told to go and collect it herself as part of the Government’s restorative justice system.”
Daily Telegraph, 16th June 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A Muslim cocktail waitress who quit after refusing to wear a bright red dress for work has won almost £3,000 in compensation for sexual harassment.”
Daily Telegraph, 15th June 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd and Others v Coutinho
Court of Appeal
“An employment tribunal had no jurisdiction to enforce a discrimination compensation award it made to an employee; however, if the employee had entered a county court judgment on the award and the employer still failed to pay the money, then the employment tribunal could link the failure to post-employment discrimination and victimisation in order to assume jurisdiction to enforce the judgment.”
The Times, 8th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Rank Nemo (DMS) Ltd and others v Coutinho [2009] EWCA Civ 454; [2009] WLR (D) 163
“The failure of an employer to pay compensation awarded to an employee for race discrimination, even after such compensation award had been converted into a county court judgment, could amount to victimisation of the employee after termination of his employment, for the purposes of a claim under s 4(2) of the Race Relations Act 1976.”
WLR Daily, 21st May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“The Ministry of Defence is facing a flood of compensation claims from families of servicemen who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan after a landmark legal ruling that they are covered by human rights laws.”
Daily Telegraph, 19th May 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Nine Iraqi civilians who were abused by British troops have been awarded almost £1 million in compensation, it can be revealed.”
Sunday Telegraph, 17th May 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Ann Abraham, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, has today laid before both Houses of Parliament a further report concerning Equitable Life.”
Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman, 6th May
Source: www.ombudsman.org.uk
“Five elderly Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau independence uprising of more than 50 years ago are to issue a reparations claim against the British government in London next month.”
The Guardian, 10th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Union Railways (North) Ltd and another v Kent County Council [2009] EWCA Civ 363; [2009] WLR (D) 143
“In a compulsory purchase order case in which applicable notices to treat had been served on the landowner, but not on a company which claimed previously to have acquired certain rights partly over land acquired under the order, the company was not excluded per se by reason of s 22 of the Compulsory Purchase Act 1965 from making a reference to the Lands Tribunal seeking compensation.”
WLR Daily, 5th May 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“A senior NHS manager could be paid nearly £500,000 in compensation after she was refused a new job at the age of 56.”
Daily Telegraph, 8th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The taxpayer could be facing a multi-million compensation bill after a court ruled the Home Office was wrong to change the settlement rules for skilled migrants.”
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
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