PREVIOUS SPEAKERS:
Michael Rubenstein
Editor, Industrial Relations Law Reports and Co-Editor, Equal Opportunities
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to list of speakers Title: "Key cases for 2006"
Notes for a talk at the Industrial Law Society evening meetings
17 January 2006, 2 February 2006, 9 February 2006
The edited text of this talk will be available shortly on the ILS website http://www.industriallawsociety.org.uk/ and also on my own website http://www.michaelrubenstein.co.uk/
Note: The jurisdiction referred to below relates to where a hearing or a decision is pending.
A. Transfer of undertakings and collective redundancies
1. Celtec Ltd v Astley (No.2) – HL – 4 April
2. Werhof v Freeway Traffic Systems GmbH – ECJ – Advocate General’s Opinion – 15 November 2005
3. Cross v British Airways plc – CA – 17 January
4. Roberts & Partners Consulting v Roberts – EAT – pending
5. Leicestershire County Council v Unison – CA- May
6. Athinaiki Khartopiia v Panagiotidis – ECJ – pending
B. Trade union rights
7. Viking Line ABP v International Transport Workers’ Federation - ECJ – pending
8. Laval un Partneri Ltd v Svenska Byggnadsarbetareforbundet – ECJ – pending
9. ASLEF v United Kingdom – ECHR – pending
C. Health and safety issues
10. Commission v United Kingdom –ECJ – pending
D. Working time
11. Robinson-Steele v R D Retail Services Ltd and Clarke v Frank Staddon Ltd. – ECJ – Advocate General – 27 October 2005
12. British Airways plc v Noble –– CA – 8/9 March
13. Commissioners of Inland Revenue v Ainsworth – HL – pending
14. FNV v Dutch State – ECJ – Preliminary hearing – 15 December 2005
15. Cook v C2C Rail Ltd – EAT – pending
16. Commission v United Kingdom – C/484/04 ECJ - Preliminary hearing 26 Jan 2006
E. Protection from harassment
17. Majrowski v Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Trust –– HL – May
F. Interference with contract
18. Mainstream Properties Ltd v Young– HL – pending
G. Employment status
19. Cable & Wireless plc v Muscat – CA – decision awaited
20. Cornwall County Council v Prater - CA – decision awaited
21. Flett v Matheson – CA – decision awaited
H. Unfair dismissal
22. Lawson v Serco Ltd, Veta Ltd v Crofts, and Botham v Foreign and Commonwealth Office – HL – decision awaited
23. Pudney v Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd –EAT – March/April
24. Trustees of Mama East African Women’s Group v Dobson – CA –6 March
I. Part-time workers
25. Matthews v Kent & Medway Towns Fire Authority – HL – 11/12 January
J. Fixed-term workers
26. Adeneler v Ellinikos Organismos Galaktos – ECJ - Advocate General - 27 October 2005
K. Pregnancy and Maternity
27. Sarkatsis Herrero v Instituto Madridleño – ECJ - Advocate General - 10 November 2005
28. Madarassy v Nomura International plc – CA – 22/23 February
29. Fletcher v Blackpool Fylde & Wyre Hospitals NHS Trust – CA – 27/28 March
30. Hoyland v Asda Stores Ltd – CS – 16/17 March
L. Sex discrimination
31. Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Rutherford (No.2) – HL - 6-8 March
32. Grundy v British Airways plc – CA - pending
33. Starmer v British Airways plc – CA –pending
M. Gender reassignment
34. B v BA – CA – 6 February
N. Victimisation
35. Derbyshire v St Helens Council – HL – pending
36. Villalba v Merrill Lynch & Co – EAT – 14 February
O. Equal pay
37. Sharp v Caledonia Group Services Ltd – CA – pending
38. Armstrong v Newcastle Upon Tyne NHS Trust – HL – application for leave pending
39. Allen v GMB, Allen v Unison, and Dabb v Transport & General Workers’ Union – ET – pending
40. Wilson v North Cumbria Acute Hospitals NHS Trust –ET - pending
41. Martin v Home Office – ET – 16 January
42. Home Office v Bailey – appeal against [2005] IRLR
757 EAT
CA – June
43. Home Office v Bailey – appeal against [2005] IRLR 369 CA - HL – pending
44. SITA (UK) Ltd v Hope – CA – 1/2 March
45. Cadman v HSE –ECJ – pending
46. Powerhouse v Burroughs/Preston v Wolverhampton NHS Trust –HL – 15/16 Feb
P. Race discrimination
47. Serco Ltd v Redfearn – CA – 28/29 March
48. R (Elias) v Secretary of State for Defence – CA – April
49. Barracks v Metropolitan Police Commissioner – CA – June
50. BMA v Chaudhary – CA – pending
Q. Religious discrimination
51. Mohmed v West Coast Trains – EAT – pending
R. Disability discrimination
52. Navas v Eurest Colectividades SA – ECJ – pending
53. OCS Group v Taylor – CA - pending
54. Cann v BUPA Care Homes/Spillet v Tesco –
EAT – 31 January