Legal News

A recent EAT case can make it easier for a whistleblower who is an agency worker to claim against the end user. In McTigue v University Hospital Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, a Forensic Nurse Examiner was employed by an agency and supplied to an NHS Trust. Both the agency and the Trust determined part of... Read more »
The Court of Appeal has applied EU law to hold that a student could make an employment tribunal claim for discrimination by a work placement provider, even though her university had arranged the work placement. The claimant was undertaking a Diploma of Higher Education in Mental Health Nursing, and claimed indirect sex discrimination against a... Read more »
When can and should OH disclose medical information in the public interest, without consent? This has recently been in the news in the case of the refuse lorry driver who collapsed at the wheel in a crowded Glasgow street, tragically killing six shoppers when his lorry went out of control and mounted the pavement. Assuming... Read more »
The Court of Appeal has held that court interpreters employed on an assignment-by-assignment basis were not within the EqA. The interpreters were not employees, and the employment tribunal had held that nor where they within the extended EqA definition of employment, as being employed under a contract ‘personally to do work’. The EAT overturned the... Read more »