Compensation

Bates v Cumbria County Council and another LSG 2 September

The employee was employed by the first employer, a local authority, as a teacher at the second employer’s school. In April 2009, he was dismissed for misconduct. He commenced proceedings against the employers in the employment tribunal and was found to have been unfairly dismissed. He was awarded a total of £70,925 (the award), which included a substantial sum in respect of pension loss. Following the remedy hearing in the tribunal, the employee was convicted of assaulting a 16-year-old former pupil in July 2010. The employers applied for a review of the tribunal’s decision on remedy on the basis that the employee would have been dismissed following his conviction for assault.