Wrongful Termination in UK Law

  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 Diciembre 2012
    ... ... is entitled to a sum contractually due to him in the form of a termination payment amounting to more than €12.5m and to damages for breach of ... , is the employee entitled to maintain a claim for damages for wrongful dismissal and an alleged breach of the tax efficiency provision in ... ...
  • Malik and Mahmud v Bank of Credit and Commerce International SA
    • House of Lords
    • 12 Junio 1997
    ... ... 26 Premature termination losses ... 27 This proposition calls for elaboration. The starting ... 36 This approach brings one face to face with the decision in the wrongful dismissal case of Addis v. Gramophone Co. Ltd. [1909] A.C. 488 ... It ... ...
  • Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Yusen Kubishika Kaisha (the "Golden Victory")
    • House of Lords
    • 28 Marzo 2007
    ... ... by the charterers, the owners counterclaimed for damages for wrongful termination of the charter, quantified as the difference between the daily ... ...
  • Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    • Supreme Court
    • 14 Diciembre 2011
    ... ... he claimed damages for breach of his employment contract and its wrongful termination. By his particulars of claim, he alleges that the termination ... ...
  • Southern Foundries (1926) Ltd v Shirlaw
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Abril 1940
    ... ... continuance of the agreement or within three years after its termination without the consent of the Company to carry on or be engaged in the ... the consequences of that discharge whether rightful, or whether wrongful and so involving the payment of damages. If a man buys goods and contracts ... ...
  • Gunton v Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 03 Julio 1980
    ... ... There was explicit provision for the termination of the appointment by one month's notice on either side. It is common ... It is trite enough that the wrongful repudiation of a contract does not, in general, determine the contract. It ... ...
  • Evans Marshall & Company Ltd v Bertola S.A.
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 Diciembre 1972
    ... ... claims in both actions arise out of the purported unilateral termination by Bertola of a sole distributor and agency agreement with the Plaintiffs ... damages for wrongful interference with contracts to which the Plaintiffs are a party, and also ... ...
  • Rookes v Barnard
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Enero 1964
    ... ... of Appeal) in the case of a trade dispute do not involve any wrongful action on the part of the employees, whose service contracts are not ... not only agreed to a fixed period of notice on either side for termination of the employment but also not to strike, which I take it means not to ... ...
  • Johnson v Unisys Ltd
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ... ... for financial loss actually suffered as a result of the manner of wrongful dismissal ... 4 It is instructive to ... 26 Inapplicability to termination. Counsel for the employers also argued that the implied obligation of ... ...
  • D (A Child) (Abduction: Rights of custody); Re
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Noviembre 2006
    ... ... invoked to protect children from the harmful effects of their wrongful removal and to ensure their prompt return to the state of their habitual ... terms that, under the law as it then stood in Romania, termination of marriage through divorce brings joint custody to an end, that cases ... ...
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