Havering Primary Care Trust v Bidwell: EAT 22 Apr 2008

EAT Unfair dismissal – Reasonableness of dismissal – Contributory fault
Nurse doing second job which involved her working excessive hours – Tribunal found that dismissal was not a reasonable sanction having regard to a number of specific mitigating factors but reduced her awards by 30% –
Held: (1) that the Tribunal had not applied the wrong approach or substituted its own decision for that of the employer and that its decision was not perverse; and (2) that the reduction of 30% was on the low side but not to the extent that it could be said to be wrong in law.

Judges:

Underhill P J

Citations:

[2008] UKEAT 0479 – 07 – 2204

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Updated: 14 July 2022; Ref: scu.267039