Ian Smith provides a round-up of the latest employment law decisions
This last month has been the usual busy one, with the handing down by the Supreme Court of their judgments in the linked cases of Homer v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2012] UKSC 15, [2012] All ER (D) 122 (Apr) and Seldon v Clarkson Wright and Jakes [2012] UKSC 16, [2012] All ER (D) 121 (Apr) on deep issues on age discrimination and, at the other end of the scale (in so many ways), a quite fascinating Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision on the employment status of a lapdancer (Quashie v Stringfellows Restaurants [2012] UKEAT/0289/11). The two Supreme Court cases will be considered specifically in other articles in this magazine, and I will leave it up to individual readers of this column to take up the issue of lapdancers if that is their particular interest (always remembering, please, to preface any remarks with the accepted formula of “friends tell me...”). Instead, this column looks at four recent cases which, while rather more prosaic, do concern issues of some practical
