Articles tagged as Employment Law
Latest Law Papers tagged as Employment Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Diarra v FIFA (FIFA v BZ), Case C-650/22, ECLI:EU:C:2024:824
Case Summaries
In FIFA v BZ (Diarra), Case C-650/22, the CJEU examined transfer rules restricting players’ free movement and competition between clubs. Judgment of 4 October 2024. ...
Last modified: 4th Nov 2026
Williams v The Trustees of Swansea University Pension & Assurance Scheme and another [2018] UKSC 65
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that Mr Williams was not treated unfavourably under section 15 of the Equality Act 2010 when the enhancement to his ill-health early retirement pension was calculated using his part-time salary. He was entitled to that immediate pension only because of his disabilities; without them he would have had no pension until […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Barnardo’s v Buckinghamshire and others [2018] UKSC 55
Case Summaries
This appeal concerned whether the trustees of the Barnardo Staff Pension Scheme could move pension increases from the Retail Prices Index to another measure, such as the Consumer Prices Index, while the RPI was still published. Pensions in payment rise by the lesser of 5% and the annual increase in an index defined as the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Essop and others v Home Office [2017] UKSC 27
Case Summaries
A promotion test and a prison chaplains’ pay scale raised the same question about indirect discrimination. Did employees need to explain why a neutral rule disadvantaged their group? The Supreme Court held that the rule had to cause the disadvantage, but the employees did not have to establish why it did so. The two appeals […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Hartley and others v King Edward VI College [2017] UKSC 39
Case Summaries
How much of an annual salary can a college withhold for a day on strike? The college counted the weekdays in the year. The teachers counted all 365 days. Their dispute turned on what their annual salary bought, including work the college could not timetable. The disputed deduction The appellants were teachers at the respondent’s […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
O’Brien v Ministry of Justice [2017] UKSC 46
Case Summaries
By 2017 Dermod O’Brien had established that his fee-paid work as a recorder entitled him to a pro rata judicial pension. Its value still depended on a date. Would the calculation count service going back to 1978, or only the years after the United Kingdom was required to implement the Part-Time Work Directive? Mr O’Brien […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Walker v Innospec Limited and others [2017] UKSC 47
Case Summaries
John Walker had earned a pension that would provide an income for a surviving spouse. The dispute concerned who would qualify for that income if he died. Innospec argued that his service ended too early for his husband to receive the pension a wife would receive. The Supreme Court examined when the unequal treatment would […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
P v Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis [2017] UKSC 65
Case Summaries
A police officer dismissed by a misconduct panel claimed in the Employment Tribunal that her dismissal discriminated against her because of disability. The lower courts held that judicial immunity barred the claim. The Supreme Court held that EU law required police officers to have access to the Employment Tribunal for such claims, and that the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Michalak v General Medical Council and others [2017] UKSC 71
Case Summaries
Dr Ewa Michalak claimed that the General Medical Council discriminated against her in the way it pursued fitness to practise proceedings and in failing to investigate complaints she had made about other doctors. The Council argued that the Employment Tribunal had no jurisdiction because she could seek judicial review instead. The Supreme Court held that […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
McBride v Scottish Police Authority [2016] UKSC 27
Case Summaries
A fingerprint officer who had been kept off court work after a disputed identification was unfairly dismissed when she would not move to another role. The Employment Tribunal ordered her reinstatement, but the Inner House treated that order as an unlawful change to her contract. The Supreme Court held that the tribunal had restored the […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
Taiwo v Olaigbe and Onu v Akwiwu [2016] UKSC 31
Case Summaries
The Supreme Court held that mistreating migrant domestic workers because their immigration status made them vulnerable is not, without more, discrimination because of nationality. Ms Taiwo and Ms Onu, both Nigerian domestic workers, had been exploited by their employers, but the reason was their precarious immigration position, not the fact that they were Nigerian. Their […] ...
Last modified: 3rd Nov 2026
