“According to last weeks’ press coverage, schools are to be given new powers to weed out incompetent teachers and enforce ‘rigorous’ standards to ensure performance is maintained. However, behind the headlines these proposals may be less far reaching in practice than they at first appear.”
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 18th January 2012
Source: www.halsburyslawexchange.co.uk
“Hogan Lovells senior litigator Christopher Grierson has been dismissed from the partnership after claiming over £1m in false expenses over the course of four years.”
The Lawyer, 17th May 2011
Source: www.thelawyer.com
“A teacher was sacked after bringing a sledge into school and allowing two pupils to ride on it, a disciplinary hearing has heard.”
BBC News, 11th January 2011
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A science teacher who attacked a 14-year-old pupil with a dumbbell was sacked from his job, a union said. Peter Harvey, 50, was handed a two year community order on Monday at Nottingham Crown Court after he admitted bludgeoning the boy at All Saints’ Roman Catholic School in Mansfield.”
The Independent, 27th May 2010
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“Employers are increasingly using drug testing to get rid of staff without having to make redundancy payouts, as a way of cutting costs during the recession, a charity has said.”
The Guardian, 18th May 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A magistrate who was suspended for criticising the police is to be reinstated after an independent review decided a recommendation to dismiss her was ‘disproportionate’ and the hearing that led to it was flawed and unfair, the Guardian has learned.”
The Guardian, 16th February 2009
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Firms that sack a trainee without the agreement of the Solicitors Regulation Authority could find themselves liable for hefty damages, a landmark employment tribunal decision suggests.”
Law Society’s Gazette, 22nd January 2009
Source: www.lawgazette.co.uk
Court of Appeal
“An employment tribunal was entitled to find that an employee’s dismissal for misconduct was fair, even though the employer, in his response to the reason for the dismissal, had taken account of previous similar misconduct which was the subject of an expired final warning.”
The Times, 26th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
Please note the Times Law Reports are only available free on Times Online for 21 days from the date of publication.
“An employee’s past conduct can be taken into account when dismissing them, even if that conduct was the subject of a written warning which has since expired, the Court of Appeal has ruled.”
OUT-LAW.com, 12th February 2008
Source: www.out-law.com
No priority for liability to dismissal damages
In re Leeds United Association Football Club Ltd
“Where administrators adopted the contracts of employment of a company and the company subsequently become liable to pay damages for the wrongful termination of those contracts, the damages were not payable in priority to other expenses since that liability was not within the words ‘wages or salary’.”
The Times, 4th September 2007
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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