‘An employment tribunal has ordered that a firm pay around £26,500 to a Jewish employee sacked after he did not come to work on Passover.’
Law Society's Gazette, 7th March 2022
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
‘Greater Manchester police (GMP) have paid out £8,000 to a woman who reported being drugged and raped, only to be pressed into dropping the case without a proper investigation “because nothing will come of it”.’
The Guardian, 4th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Home Office has agreed to pay nearly £6,000 in a settlement to an EU citizen it detained at the border in a post-Brexit crackdown on Europeans entering the country last year.’
The Guardian, 6th March 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘CN v Secretary of State for Health and Social Care [2022] EWCA Civ 86. In a judgment handed down on 4 February 2022, the Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal for permission to apply for judicial review concerning the lawfulness of the England Infected Blood Support Scheme (EIBSS) (the “Scheme”). The Court of Appeal concluded that the Scheme’s exclusion of those infected with hepatitis B was not discriminatory. In any event, the Secretary of State’s justification for who was to be compensated under the ex gratia Scheme was to be given a wide margin of appreciation by the courts.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 21st February 2022
Source: ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘A county council has agreed to pay more than £3,600 following a Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman (LGSCO) investigation into how a teenager on the autism spectrum was left without a significant proportion of his agreed special educational needs (SEN) support for up to three years.’
Local Government Lawyer, 17th February 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘The Post Office and the government need to speed up compensation payments to workers who were victims of the Horizon IT scandal, according to a report by an influential group of MPs.’
The Guardian, 17th February 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The wrongful convictions of hundreds of sub-postmasters and mistresses will be examined by a public inquiry starting on Monday.’
BBC News, 14th February 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The father of a man found dead in a concrete mixer has claimed he may have been “deliberately killed”, the High Court heard.’
BBC News, 4th February 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In this post, Kenny Henderson and Alex Askew of CMS comment on the Supreme Court’s decision in Lloyd v Google LLC [2021] UKSC 50, which concerned whether a representative data protection action seeking damages for loss of control of personal data could be brought on behalf of large numbers of unidentifiable class members.’
UKSC Blog, 31st January 2022
Source: ukscblog.com
‘The case of a Rastafarian woman who was sat naked in a police cell shows officers need greater understanding of minority groups, ex-senior officers have said.’
BBC News, 2nd February 2022
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A City banker who had a witch’s hat left on her desk by drunken male colleagues has won more than £2m in compensation for sexual discrimination.’
The Guardian, 31st January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The days of £220 payouts to delayed passengers who have paid only £30 for a domestic flight may soon be over. The Department for Transport (DfT) is consulting on proposals to overhaul the European air passengers’ rights rules for flights within the UK.’
The Independent, 31st January 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘The BBC has paid £1.64m in damages over the deaths of 11 former staff who died from cancer after working in corporation buildings riddled with asbestos, the Observer can reveal.’
The Guardian, 30th January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘An environmental activist who was deceived into a two-year intimate relationship by an undercover police officer has been awarded £229,000 in compensation after winning a landmark legal case.’
The Guardian, 25th January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The Metropolitan police have apologised and paid compensation to an academic for “sexist, derogatory and unacceptable language” used by officers about her when she was strip-searched.’
The Guardian, 24th January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘The head of one of Oxford university’s grandest colleges has indicated that he will agree to step down after a long-running dispute in a deal that includes a £1.5m pay-off and the settlement of a sexual harassment claim against him.’
Financial Times, 21st January 2022
Source: www.ft.com
‘UK taxpayers could have to pay as much as £1bn in compensation to former Post Office workers wrongly convicted of theft due to the defective Horizon IT system.’
The Guardian, 23rd January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A senior academic who says she was sacked from her post in a university’s physics department because of her loud voice has been awarded more than £100,000 after winning a claim for unfair dismissal.’
The Guardian, 18th January 2022
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Shaun O’Neil and Nicola Hyam report on a recent case where a claimant sought to argue that a village road in the Lakes should have been maintained to the standards of a footway.’
Local Government Lawyer, 14th January 2022
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘Tens of thousands of people with disabilities and health problems are being denied the right to compensation following a government blunder over benefit payments, the health watchdog has warned.’
The Independent, 13th January 2022
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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