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Employment-law [2025] NICA 66

McGreevy v NFU Mutual Insurance Society LTD

McGreevy v NFU Mutual Insurance Society LTD [2025] NICA 66 (15 December 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed an appeal about employee status, holding the claimant was not a limb (b) worker and no procedural unfairness arose.

  • Employment-status
  • Limb-(b)-worker
  • Personal-service
  • Client-or-customer-test
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Jurisdiction
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Employment-law [2025] NICA 61

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council v O'Neill

Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council v O'Neill [2025] NICA 61 (05 December 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland allowed an employer’s appeal in a sex discrimination case, finding the tribunal’s reasoning on comparators and burden of proof unsustainable.

  • Sex-discrimination
  • Burden-of-proof
  • Comparators
  • Employment-restructuring
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Civil-procedure [2025] NIMaster 20

Allen v Education Authority & Anor

Allen v Education Authority & Anor [2025] NIMaster 20 (27 November 2025)

The court refused a plaintiff’s bid to undo joinder of the Department of Education as a defendant, holding it was properly joined under Northern Ireland civil procedure rules.

  • Joinder-of-parties
  • Breach-of-contract
  • Misrepresentation
  • Negligent-misstatement
  • Breach-of-statutory-duty
  • Remuneration-disputes
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Employment-law [2025] NIKB 64

Ferguson v Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association

Ferguson v Woodvale and Shankill Community Housing Association [2025] NIKB 64 (26 November 2025)

The High Court in Northern Ireland dismissed a boiler engineer’s injury claim, finding no breach of statutory duty or negligence caused the accident.

  • Employer's-liability
  • Risk-assessment
  • Provision-of-equipment
  • Personal-protective-equipment
  • Causation
  • Employer-liability
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Employment-law [2025] NICA 60

Grant v Metloc Systems Ltd

Grant v Metloc Systems Ltd [2025] NICA 60 (25 November 2025)

Court of Appeal held the Industrial Tribunal erred in refusing to extend time for an age discrimination claim and ordered time extended.

  • Age-discrimination
  • Extension-of-time
  • Industrial-tribunal-procedure
  • Statutory-discretion
  • Industrial-tribunal-appeal
  • Employment-law
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Civil-procedure [2025] NIMaster 19

Hawthorne v Donnelly & Anor

Hawthorne v Donnelly & Anor [2025] NIMaster 19 (14 November 2025)

The court refused the plaintiff’s summary judgment application and granted the second defendant’s specific discovery request for medical and related records.

  • Summary-judgment
  • Specific-discovery
  • Discrimination
  • Personal-injury
  • Costs
  • Medical-records
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Employment-law [2025] NICA 32

Lucas v Eurocoach (NI) Ltd

Lucas v Eurocoach (NI) Ltd [2025] NICA 32 (19 June 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed an employee’s appeal against dismissal of disability discrimination, wages and harassment claims.

  • Unlawful-deduction-of-wages
  • Disability-discrimination
  • Reasonable-adjustments
  • Victimisation
  • Harassment
  • Time-limitation
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Tort [2025] NICty 5

Gurney v Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited

Gurney v Courtaulds Textiles (Holdings) Limited [2025] NICty 5 (11 June 2025)

The court allowed a workplace hearing-loss claim, accepted the plaintiff’s expert evidence, rejected the defendant’s noise survey, and awarded £8,250 in damages.

  • Noise-induced-hearing-loss
  • Employer's-liability
  • Limitation-period
  • Damages-assessment
  • Employer-liability
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Employment-law [2025] NICA 24

Deman v Queen's University Belfast

Deman v Queen's University Belfast [2025] NICA 24 (28 May 2025)

The Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland dismissed Mr Deman’s appeal against findings that Queen’s University Belfast did not discriminate, victimize, or act unfairly in shortlisting him.

  • Race-discrimination
  • Religious-discrimination
  • Victimisation
  • Indirect-discrimination
  • Procedural-fairness
  • Recusal
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Tort [2025] NICty 3

McDaid v Spanboard Products Ltd

McDaid v Spanboard Products Ltd [2025] NICty 3 (14 May 2025)

The County Court for Northern Ireland held Spanboard Products Limited liable for Ms McDaid’s noise-induced hearing loss, rejected limitation, and awarded £14,726.85 in damages.

  • Negligence
  • Breach-of-statutory-duty
  • Noise-induced-hearing-loss
  • Limitation
  • Personal-injury-damages
  • Employment-negligence
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