| Source: | All England Reporter |
| Publisher Citation: | [2002] All ER (D) 259 (Oct) |
| Court: | Court of Appeal, Civil Division |
| Judge: | Ward, Mummery and Jonathan Parker LJJ |
| Representation | The employee did not appear and was not represented. |
| Jason Galbraith-Marten (instructed by Group Legal Services, J Sainsbury plc) for the employer. | |
| Judgment Dates: | 18 October 2002 |
Catchwords
Employment - Unfair dismissal - Misconduct - Reasonableness of investigation - Test to be applied.
The Case
The need for an employment tribunal to apply the range of reasonable responses test, or, put another way, the need to apply the objective standards of a reasonable employer, applied as much to the reasonableness of an investigation as to the reasonableness of a decision to dismiss when considering a complaint of unfair dismissal.
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