Workplace Report (October 2000)

Features: Law at work

Disciplinary appeals

An employer who refuses to take account of new evidence presented at a disciplinary hearing appeal will be doing something that is outside the range of reasonable responses for an employer to take. This means that a decision to dismiss in such circumstances will almost certainly be unfair.

(Valton v LB Hackney EAT/410/99)

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