Right to Privacy — Case Summary
Fearn & Kraftman & McFadyen & Urquhart -v- The Board of Trustees of The Tate Gallery The claimants are the owners of flats in a building adjacent to the Tate Modern museum. They brought a claim in nuisance under the Human Rights Act 1998 to protect their rights of privacy. The claim stems from the viewing gallery within the Tate Modern that allows visitors...
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Remedies for unfair dismissal
The Employment Rights Act 1996 (ERA 1996) sets out the remedies available to claimants in cases of unfair dismissal. Where a tribunal finds that an employee has been unfairly dismissed, the tribunal may apply the following remedies in favour of the employee: Order the employer to reinstate or re-engage the claimant Although orders for reinstatement or re-engagement are quite rare in practice, a tribunal has...
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Enforcing money judgment
Obtaining a money judgment does not automatically bring the matter to a close. In many cases the judgment creditor would have to take enforcement steps against the debtor in order to realise funds to satisfy the money judgment. To enforce a money judgment, the debtor must have failed to pay the judgment when it fell due or failed to pay an instalment due under the...
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