Rosie Evans

Practitioner’s Insights – The Risks of Ignoring the Issue

As you can imagine, we deal a lot with issues where the employer has “reached the end of their tether” in managing a problem like capability.  Sometimes we are involved throughout a process, which will either lead to an improvement in performance or potentially dismissal.  Others however, we are called...

Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd

In Patel v Folkestone Nursing Home Ltd EWCA Civ 1689 the Court of Appeal has held that there was no dismissal where a contractual disciplinary appeal was successful.

The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal that there was no dismissal where an employee who, following his appeal...

Plumber Engaged on a Self-Employed Basis was Entitled to ‘Workers’ Rights

In Pimlico Plumbers v Gary Smith the Supreme Court considered an employment tribunal’s decision regarding the employment status of Mr Smith who was engaged by Pimlico Plumbers purportedly on a self employed basis.

In 2011 Mr Smith issued several claims in the tribunal. The tribunal found that Mr Smith was not...