Employee-favourable
2019
Secretly recording a meeting at work is generally seen as some misconduct, but it isn't automatically gross misconduct, and it won't necessarily wreck an otherwise strong unfair dismissal claim.
Mixed
2025
If you're dismissed for poor performance after a final warning, your employer has to look at how you actually performed since that warning, not just repeat the evidence that led to it.
Employer-favourable
2021
Repeated unexplained rejections aren't proof of race discrimination by themselves. You need facts that specifically point towards your protected characteristic as the reason, before the burden shifts to your employer to explain itself.
Employer-favourable
2000
In an unfair dismissal claim, proving your innocence isn't the test. The test is whether your employer's investigation and belief in your guilt were ones a reasonable employer could have reached.
Employee-favourable
2013
If two respondents are both liable for the same discrimination, you can recover the full compensation award from either one of them. The tribunal doesn't split it between them.
Employer-favourable
1997
An employer treating you unreasonably is not, by itself, evidence of discrimination. You need to show a real or hypothetical comparator was treated better.
