Personal Service in UK Law

  • Nokes v Doncaster Amalgamated Collieries
    • House of Lords
    • 20 August 1940
    ... ... of Law in the Case Stated be answered by saying that a Contract of Service did not exist between the Appellant and the Respondents: And it is further ... Counsel for the Appellant argued that a contractual right to personal service was a personal right of the employer and was incapable of being ... ...
  • Godwin v Swindon Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 10 October 2001
    ... ... He claimed damages for personal injury against his employers by a claim form issued on 17 th February ... order made on 26 th May 2000, a district judge extended time for service of the proceedings to 8 th August 2000. By order made on 4 th August ... ...
  • Gunton v Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 July 1980
    ... ... side and will be subject to the National Scheme of Conditions of Service for Local Authorities A. P. T ... and Clerical Services which will govern ... , (1969) 1 Queen's Bench, 699 , was not a case of a contract of personal £ service but of a contract for services. Nevertheless both Lord Justice ... ...
  • Barton v Wright Hassall LLP
    • Supreme Court
    • 21 February 2018
    ... ... obtaining any prior indication that they were prepared to accept service by that means. It is common ground that this was not good service. As a ... because it had been open to the claimant's solicitor to effect personal service. However, I agree with the general point that it is not ... ...
  • 1) Albert John Martin Abela and Others (Respondents/Claimants) v Ahmad Baadarani
    • Supreme Court
    • 26 June 2013
    ... ... for decision in this appeal is whether there has been good service of the claim form in this action on the respondent ... 2 This is ... the claim form and documents by alternative means, namely by personal service of an untranslated copy of all the documents at the Farid Trad ... ...
  • Autoclenz Ltd v Belcher and Others
    • Supreme Court
    • 27 July 2011
    ... ... New valeters were recruited either by personal recommendation and word of mouth or through advertisements placed in the ... classic description of a contract of employment (or a contract of service as it used to be called) is found in the judgment of MacKenna J in Ready ... ...
  • Express & Echo Publications Ltd v Tanton
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 March 1999
    ... ... another in return for payment is an employee under a contract of service or a self-employed contractor under a contract for services ... not appreciate that there was such emphasis by the appellant on personal service by him as a requirement of a contract of employment, otherwise he ... ...
  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 December 2012
    ... ... Contract; or • 1 week for each complete year of service up to a maximum of 12 weeks' notice after 12 years' continuous service ... a repudiatory breach must be accepted was applied to contracts of personal service. Rimer LJ said in para 18 that permission to appeal had been given ... ...
  • Anderton v Clwyd County Council; Bryant v Pech and Another; Dorgan v Home Office; Chambers v Southern Domestic Electrical Services Ltd; Cummins v Shell International Manning Services Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 July 2002
    ... ... concern the construction and application of provisions in Part 6 (Service of Documents) and Part 7 (How to Start Proceedings-The Claim Form) of the ... or his solicitor through the post, by fax or by means other than personal service within the period of 4 months allowed by rule 7.5(2) is legally ... ...
  • Decro-Wall International S.A. v Practitioners in Marketing Ltd
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 15 October 1970
    ... ... I doubt whether a wrongful dismissal brings a contract of service to an end in law, although no doubt in practice it does. Under such a ... that if this proposition was too wide, nonetheless contracts for personal service were anexception to the general rule that the innocent party has ... ...
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