Settlement Saddlepoint

Authorities (3)

• Kopel v Safeway Stores plc [2003] IRLR 753
  HHJ Ansell

  Costs; settlement offers; the Calderbank principle (automatic costs for rejecting a reasonable offer) does not apply in employment tribunals, but rejection of a 'without prejudice save as to costs' offer is evidence of unreasonable conduct that a tribunal may consider when exercising its costs discretion. [Summary not yet checked against the judgment.]

• Yerrakalva v Barnsley MBC [2012] IRLR 78; [2011] EWCA Civ 1255 [judgment]
  Mummery LJ, Patten LJ, Sir Henry Brooke

  Costs; causation; the tribunal must look at the whole picture of unreasonable conduct.

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  • Ireland v University College London 5 paras

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• Faithorn Farrell Timms LLP v Bailey [2016] IRLR 839 [judgment]
  HHJ Eady

  Settlement; s.111A; the inadmissibility of pre-termination negotiations extends to internal discussions about the offer. [Summary not yet checked against the judgment.]

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  • Gallagher v McKinnon’s Auto and Tyres Ltd 3 paras
  • Tarbuc v Martello Piling Ltd 2 paras

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