The claimant in this case was a teacher working for an institution responsible for schools in different parts of the country. The claimant was undergoing disciplinary investigations into his confrontational style with some pupils and he was eventually dismissed. Before his dismissal, the claimant made 12 some serious allegations about the organisation and the HR department.

The tribunal held that those allegations were not such as to render it impracticable for him to be re-engaged at a different school in a different part of the country. Therefore, the tribunal awarded re-engagement at another school.

The EAT stressed the case should not be seen in any way as a precedent: "No general conclusion about the readiness with which reinstatement or re-engagement orders should be made should be drawn from our decision, except perhaps that every case depends on its own facts. In other cases where an unfairly dismissed employee makes serious allegations against his former employer he may indeed thereby render his reinstatement or re-engagement impracticable..." http://bit.ly/10L19MW