Cox Toner (WE) (International) Ltd v Crook

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Date1981
CourtEmployment Appeal Tribunal
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200 cases
  • Henry v London General Transport Services Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 March 2002
    ...claiming not to have accepted the revised terms. 20 The question of affirmation of a contract of employment was considered in WE Cox Toner International Ltd v Crook [1981] ICR 323, Browne-Wilkinson J, President, presiding. Browne-Wilkinson J cited the well-known passage from the judgment of......
  • Miss A Donaghey v Done Bros Cash Betting Ltd T/a Betfred: 2405590/2020
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Tribunal
    • 28 April 2022
    ...delays too long in resigning, they will have affirmed the contract and waived the breach. In W. E. Cox Toner (International) Ltd v Crook [1981] ICR 823 Browne-Wilkinson LJ in his Judgment emphasised that continued performance of the employment contract is evidence of affirmation. He summari......
  • Mr O Price v Telecom Service Centres Ltd T/a Webhelp UK: 2604511/2020
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Tribunal
    • 26 July 2021
    ...continued performance was indeed under protest: Novakovic v Tesco Stores Ltd EAT 0315/15. 135. WE Cox Toner (International) Ltd v Crook 1981 ICR 823, EAT, The EAT held that the tribunal had misdirected itself. Mere delay by itself did not constitute an affirmation of the contract but if the......
  • Ms E Tilli v Fresh & Wild Ltd T/a Whole Market Foods: 2204611/2019
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Tribunal
    • 24 March 2022
    ...the right to resign and claim unfair dismissal. The general principles set out by the EAT in WE Cox Turner (International) Ltd v Crook [1981] ICR 823 remain good law: “Mere delay by itself (unaccompanied by any express or implied affirmation of the contract) does not constitute affirmation ......
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1 firm's commentaries
  • Employee Competition: Recent Cases
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 7 July 2010
    ...IRLR 867 ("essentially the legal embodiment of the everyday concept of letting bygones be bygones" per McCombe J) and Cox Toner v Crook [1981] IRLR 443. Rimer LJ stated (para "an innocent party, faced with a repudiation of the contract by the other contracting party, has an option to affirm......
1 books & journal articles
  • WORKPLACE SEXUAL HARASSMENT IN SINGAPORE: THE LEGAL CHALLENGE
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 1999, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...6 ¶ 17—18. 156 See, generally, 16 Halsbury’s Laws (4th ed, 1992) at paras 302—03, 305—10. 157 WE Cox Toner (International) Ltd v Crook [1981] IRLR 443, cited in Bliss v South East Thames Regional Health Authority, supra n 146; Rigby v Ferodo Ltd[1987] IRLR 516 (HL). See also Samia El-Ibiary......

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