Burke v College of Law and another

Employment Disability. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the claimant student's appeal, held that the first defendant college had, in the circumstances, made reasonable adjustments to the examination process in order to accommodate the claimant's disability.

Kuehne & Nagel Drinks Logistics Ltd v Deakin and others

Contract Construction. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the claimants' appeal against the Employment Appeal Tribunal's decision that their employer, the defendant company, had not been making unauthorised deductions from their wages by misconstruing the employment contract, held that the defendant had applied the correct construction of the contract.

*Kuehne & Nagel Drinks Logistics Ltd and others v Revenue and Customs Commissioners

Income tax Emoluments from office or employment. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the taxpayers' appeal, held that the Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) had been correct to find that a payment of 5,000 made by the taxpayer company to taxpayer employees on their transfer to a new joint venture had been subject to income tax.

*Pannu and others v Geo W King Ltd (in liquidation) and others and other cases

Employment Transfer of trade, business or undertaking. The Employment Appeal Tribunal dismissed the employees' appeals against the finding of the employment tribunal that there had not been a transfer pursuant to reg3(1)(b) of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, , as reg3(3)(b) of the Regulations had applied precluding such a transfer in the circumstances of the instant case.

Enterprise Management Services Ltd v Connect-Up Ltd and others

Employment Transfer of trade, business or undertaking. The Employment Appeal Tribunal, in dismissing the appellant company's appeal, held that the employment tribunal had been entitled to conclude that the activities carried out by the first respondent company post-transfer had not been essentially or fundamentally the same as those previously carried on by the appellant company. Accordingly, there had been no relevant transfer pursuant to reg3 of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, .

*Preston v President of the Methodist Church

Employment Contract of Service. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in upholding a determination of the Employment Appeal Tribunal on a preliminary issue, held that the claimant Minister had had a contract of service with the Methodist Church within the meaning of s230 of the .

Hosso v European Credit Management Ltd

Employment Discrimination against a woman. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the employee's appeal, held that the employment tribunal had had no jurisdiction to hear the employee's claim under the as there was no valid claim for the contravention of any term modified or included by an equality clause, and therefore no claim within the jurisdiction of the tribunal under s2 of that Act.

De'Antiquis v Key2Law (Surrey) LLP

Employment Continuity. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, held that administrations did not fall within the scope of reg 8(7) of the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006, as they did not constitute insolvency proceedings 'instituted with a view to the liquidation of the assets' of the transferor.

*Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine and another

Employment Continuity. The Court of Appeal, Civil Division, in dismissing the defendant's company's appeal against the Employment Appeal Tribunal's decision to uphold the claimant's claim for automatic unfair dismissal on the basis that his dismissal had been connected to the transfer of the claimant's employer to the defendant, held that the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal had adopted the correct approach and had reached the correct conclusion.

Norman v Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service

Fire brigade Fireman. The Queen's Bench Division held that the consolidated elements paid to the claimant under his contract of employment were pensionable pay.