Clark v BET Plc

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
Date1997
CourtQueen's Bench Division
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31 cases
  • Rutherford v Seymour Pierce Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 11 February 2010
    ...have been exercised so as to give the least possible benefit to a claimant, if such an assumption would be unrealistic on the facts: see Clark v. BET PLC [1997] IRLR 348. 5 THE EVIDENCE 5.1 Oral Evidence 34 I heard oral evidence from three witnesses: Mr. Rutherford; SPL's former Managing Di......
  • Horkulak v Cantor Fitzgerald International
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 14 October 2004
    ...86. In my judgment the two relevant cases which disclose the correct approach are Clark v Nomura International Plc [2000] IRLR 766, and Clark v BET Plc [1997] IRLR 348. Cantor was obliged to exercise its discretion reasonably in good faith. Had it refused to exercise its discretion at all ......
  • Keen v Commerzbank AG
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 17 November 2006
    ...plc [2000] IRLR 766 at 775 (claim for damages for breach of contract in failing to pay employee any bonus) and of Timothy Walker J in Clark v. BET plc [1997] IRLR 348 at 349 (assessment of damages in a wrongful dismissal case). The decision of this court in Mallone v. BPB Industries Ltd [20......
  • IBM United Kingdom Holdings Ltd and Another v Stuart Dalgleish and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 20 February 2015
    ...to [72]. At [37] of Horkulak, Potter LJ, giving the judgment of the Court, cited with approval from the decision of Timothy Walker J in Clarke v BET plc [1997] IRLR 348. In that case, the relevant service agreement provided that "the executive's salary shall be reviewed annually and be incr......
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3 books & journal articles
  • Employers' Liability at Common Law: Two Competing Paradigms
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2008
    • 1 May 2008
    ...Fitzgerald International [2004] IRLR 942; Taylor v Motability Finance Ltd [2004] All ER (D) 341 (payment of bonuses); Clark v BET plc [1997] IRLR 348 (pay increases);Hayes v Charman Underwriting Agencies Ltd [2001] All ER (D) 319 (allocation of shares). the payment of sick pay;1313Guthrie v......
  • BONUSES (AND OTHER PAYMENTS) IN EMPLOYMENT
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2012, December 2012
    • 1 December 2012
    ...0248_08_2301 at [19]. 101 See, for instance, Clark v Nomura International plc[2000] IRLR 766. 102 See, for instance, Clark v Bet plc[1997] IRLR 348 and Mallone v BPB Industries Ltd[2002] IRLR 452. 103[2004] IRLR 942. 104Cantor Fitzgerald International v Horkulak[2004] IRLR 942 at [46]. 105 ......
  • ILO Standards and the Nigerian Law of Unfair Dismissal
    • United Kingdom
    • African Journal of International and Comparative Law No. , September 2009
    • 1 September 2009
    ...consequences.128128See United Bank v Akhtar [1989] IRLR 507; Imperial Group Pension Trust v Imperial Tobacco [1991] ICR 524; Clark v BET [1997] IRLR 348. The English House of Lords in the 1998 case of Malik v BCCI,129129[1998] AC 20. reviewed the position on damages and adopted an expanded ......

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