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Third party required to disclose judgments and orders from separate but similar equal pay cases (News, 31 October 2016)

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Published on: 31 October 2016

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An Employment Judge was entitled to order disclosure by a third party of judgments and interlocutory orders relating to equal pay cases of a similar type to those being litigated by the claimants. The third party, Birmingham City Council, had been the claimants’ employer prior to their employment being TUPE 2006 transferred to their new employer, who is the respondent to the claims. EAT: Birmingham City Council v (1) Bagshaw and others, (2) The Arthur Terry Learning Partnership.

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