Employee-favourable
2026
If you're made redundant, your employer must actively consider offering you any suitable alternative role across the organisation, including a more junior one, even if you never asked and even if it wasn't advertised yet.
Employee-favourable
2024
You have the right to see any new evidence used against you and to respond to it before you're dismissed, especially evidence that emerged after the investigation first concluded.
Mixed
2026
A genuine belief that you did something wrong is not enough to justify dismissal. Your employer needs reasonable grounds too, and you need to see the evidence.
Employee-favourable
2026
If you're dismissed while on maternity leave and told in an impersonal way, such as by text, email, or a P45 with no conversation, that can be unlawful discrimination on top of an unfair dismissal.
Mixed
2026
You have to actively ask to be accompanied at a disciplinary or grievance meeting. Your employer staying silent about what the meeting is for does not create that right for you automatically.
Employer-favourable
2024
Being told your role is "at risk of redundancy" does not automatically mean the law treats it as a redundancy, especially if your contract already allows your employer to move or vary your role.
Employee-favourable
2023
Your employer needs a genuine, reasonable belief that your conduct was serious enough to justify dismissal. A policy label that happens to fit isn't enough on its own.
Mixed
2026
If you're facing a disciplinary, your employer has to tell you clearly what you're accused of, and let the companion you bring actually speak on your behalf.
Employee-favourable
2015
HR can advise your employer on process and on keeping sanctions consistent during a disciplinary investigation. It shouldn't be shaping the findings on your guilt or credibility.
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.
Mixed
2025
Winning an unfair dismissal claim doesn't guarantee full compensation if your own conduct played a part.
Employee-favourable
2026
You can win an unfair dismissal claim over a dismissal timed around your return from maternity leave, even where a tribunal won't also uphold a discrimination claim on the same facts.
