Ian Smith serves up some employment classics & shares some wise lessons from the past
- Amdocs Systems Ltd v Langton UKEAT/0093/20: a lesson for employers on permanent health insurance schemes.
- Edinburgh Mela Ltd v Purnell UKEAT/0041/19: construing ‘deteriment’ in whistleblowing cases.
- Jefferson (Commercial) LLP v Westgate UKEAT/0128/12: the wide nature of the ultimate test for fairness of a dismissal, in a case of high-end employment.
‘Old ones, but good ones’. This is not used here in the context of your humble author’s awful line in jokes, but in relation to the issues raised in the three cases considered this month. They are all well known ones to any employment lawyer worth their salt (though hopefully cutting down on their intake thereof for health reasons), but still merit attention when judicially considered or even reconsidered in recent case law. The first case takes us on a trip down memory lane into permanent health insurance schemes and their often less-than-obvious legal implications. The second makes some interesting points on what ‘detriment’ means in whistleblowing cases. The third emphasises the wide
