Duke v GEC Reliance (formerly Reliance Systems)

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Date1982
Year1982
CourtEmployment Appeal Tribunal
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13 cases
  • Park Cakes Ltd v Shumba and Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 31 July 2013
    ...they were concerned with rather different issues from the present case, and I need only review the more recent authorities. 27 In Duke v Reliance Systems Ltd [1982] ICR 449 the employer had had a policy for many years of requiring female clerical employees to retire at the age of 60; but th......
  • Garratt v Mirror Group Newspapers
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 13 April 2011
    ...that the approach was different when considering an established practice within a single organisation. 27 In Duke v Reliance Systems Ltd [1982] ICR 449, EAT the employer was seeking to imply a contractual normal retiring age of 60. At page 452 Browne-Wilkinson J put the matter (at 452) in t......
  • Waite v Government Communications Headquarters
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 21 July 1983
    ...expressed or to be implied, it is impossible to establish that there is any normal retiring age. But in Duke v. Reliance Systems Ltd. [1982] I.C.R. 449, where there was no express contractual retiring age, the Employment Appeal Tribunal took a more flexible view. Browne-Wilkinson J., delive......
  • Sea Containers Services Ltd ((in Liquidation)), Sea Containers Ltd ((in Liquidation)), 0438490 Travel Ltd ((in Liquidation)), 1882420 Ltd ((in Liquidation)) & S.C. Maritime Ltd ((in Liquidation)) and Another
    • United Kingdom
    • Chancery Division
    • 19 September 2012
    ...or 'service credit'. The details of precisely how it worked are irrelevant for the present purposes. 5 Duke v Reliant Systems Ltd [1982] ICR 449 and Quinn v Calder Industrial Metals Ltd [1996] IRLR 126 6 Rule 1(h). 7 Special promise £60 plus actual benefits £130. ...
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1 books & journal articles
  • Contract Law
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review No. 2011, December 2011
    • 1 December 2011
    ...will be found to imply a term. This proposition was derived from a case cited by the plaintiff, viz, Duke v Reliance Systems LtdICR[1982] ICR 449 at 452. 11.43 It is, however, important to recognise that Duke v Reliance Systems Ltd concerned an employment situation; specifically, the questi......

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