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£13.4m Switalski claim upheld; F&C to appeal

switalksi Increasingly employment lawyers are trying to use technical arguments (in this case, the burden of proof) to overturn what in essence were the tribunal's findings on the evidence before them. If the tribunal have concluded that, based on what they heard, the burden of proof did shift, appellate tribunals are going to be very reluctant to meddle with that. On the money, the key question now is whether she can really be awarded that much (£13.4m+). This would be many millions of pounds more than any UK tribunal has ever awarded.

23-May-2008

3:09 pm