Igen v Wong [2005] EWCA Civ 142

Nepotism: Are workplace relationship policies now Dunn with?

Benjimin Burgher considers the impact of two conflicting EAT rulings on discrimination on the ground of marital status. ‘Employers who refuse to employ a person due to marriage to a particular person, or who subject them to detriment or dismiss them, now run the real risk of being found liable for unlawful direct discrimination.’ Up …

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Detrimental Treatment: Court adopts new causal link test

Helena Davies examines the new ‘material influence’ formula applied by the Court of Appeal in a recent whistleblowing case ‘A detriment claim will succeed if the protected disclosure has influenced the employer’s treatment “more than trivially”, whereas a claim of automatic unfair dismissal will need to show that the disclosure was the reason, or principal …

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