Posts Tagged ‘Deutsche Bank’
Helen Green Wins Court Victory – UK
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
British Worker Awarded £800,000 (US$1.5 million) in Bullying Payout
August 2, 2006
A City (London) worker has won £800,000 in damages from Deutsche Bank in a landmark workplace bullying case. The award is said by legal experts to be particularly high and likely to be appealed.
High Court judge Justice Owen said that the campaign at the secretariat division of the international banking firm Deutsche Bank Group Services (UK) Ltd. against Helen Green involved a “relentless campaign of mean and spiteful behaviour designed to cause her distress” that left Green on some occasions crying silently at her desk. She worked there from 1997 to 2001.
Owen awarded her a total of $1.5 million for pain and suffering and loss of past and future earnings. He also ordered the bank to pay her legal costs, beginning with an interim payment of $650,000.
The largest part of the award is the £640,000 awarded for future loss of earnings and a pension, and it is this portion which marks the case out as unusual.
“We have seen cases like this before a number of times but the court has awarded such a large amount because it took the view that this person would not be able to work at this salary level for a long time in the future,” said Tom Potbury, a lawyer specialising in employment law at Pinsent Masons. (more…)
Tags: Deutsche Bank, Green, UK
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Helen Green v. Deutsche Bank, UK 2006
Thursday, May 14th, 2009
The legal basis for this very rare legal case is the the Protection from Harassment Act. Even in the U.K. the proposed (but not yet passed as of the date of the Helen Green decision) specific anti-bullying Dignity At Work legislation. Remember that what happens in Britain does not influence legal proceedings in U.S. cases.
Tags: Deutsche Bank, Green, Harassment Act, UK
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