Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
JudgeLORD DYSON,LORD WALKER,LORD PHILLIPS,LORD MANCE,LADY HALE,LORD KERR,LORD WILSON
Judgment Date14 December 2011
Neutral Citation[2011] UKSC 58
CourtSupreme Court
Date14 December 2011
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  • Professor Theodora Kostakopolou v University of Warwick (corporate body incorporated by Royal Charter No RC0006678)
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 21 December 2021
    ... ... Court again considered the Johnson principle in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Botham ... ...
  • Hemmings v Tomlinson Hosp
    • Cayman Islands
    • Grand Court (Cayman Islands)
    • 28 February 2013
    ...3 W.L.R. 322; [2004] 3 All E.R. 991; [2004] UKHL 35, distinguished. (6) Edwards v. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, [2012] 2 A.C. 22; [2012] 2 W.L.R. 55; [2012] IRLR 129; [2011] UKSC 58, applied. (7) Gunton v. Richmond-upon-Thames London Borough Council, [1981] Ch. 448; [19......
  • Welton v Deluxe Retail Ltd t/a Madhouse ((in Administration))
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
  • Catherine Mary Parris v Olanrewaju Ajayi
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 12 February 2021
    ...which accrued before the dismissals. They disclose reasonable causes of action which should proceed to trial”. 126 In Edwards v Chesterfield NHS Trust [2012] 2 AC 22, the Supreme Court decided two conjoined appeals, both of which involved claims for damage to 127 In the first case, Mr Edwar......
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3 firm's commentaries
  • Employment Matters - Easter 2012
    • Ireland
    • Mondaq Ireland
    • 23 April 2012
    ...The UK Supreme Court in joined cases Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Botham v Ministry of Defence [2012] IRLR 129 held that an employee cannot recover damages at common law for their full losses where the employer is in breach of express terms in a contractual......
  • Supreme Court Gives Judgment In Edwards v Chesterfield
    • United Kingdom
    • Mondaq United Kingdom
    • 20 January 2012
    ...decision in the consolidated appeals in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Botham (FC) v Ministry of Defence [2011] UKSC 58. The issue was whether damages for future losses could be awarded arising from the unfair manner of dismissal in breach of an express term ......
  • It's Not Humbug: Recognizing The Principle Of Mutual Trust And Confidence In The Workplace
    • Canada
    • Mondaq Canada
    • 27 December 2018
    ...writing on behalf of the Court of Appeal, went on to adopt the view expressed in Edwards v. Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust, [2011] UKSC 58 the employer and employee may not, without reasonable and proper cause, conduct themselves in a manner likely to destroy or seriously damage the ......
4 books & journal articles
  • Where the Action Is: Macro and Micro Justice in Contract Law
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 83-4, July 2020
    • 1 July 2020
    ...Johnson vUnisys Ltd [2001] UKHL 13, [2003] 1AC 518 and controversially applied in Edwards vChesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust[2011] UKSC 58, [2012] 2 AC 22.207 Clark vNomura International plc [2000] IRLR 766; Mallone vBPB Industries plc [2002] EWCACiv 126, [2002] IRLR 452 (Mall......
  • FATE OF TRUST AND CONFIDENCE IN EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS
    • Singapore
    • Singapore Academy of Law Journal No. 2015, December 2015
    • 1 December 2015
    ...[2001] 2 All ER 801. 5 c 18 (1996) (UK). 6[2005] AC 503. 7 See, for instance, Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust[2012] 2 AC 22. It has also been followed in Singapore: see Wee Kim San LawrenceBernard v Robinson & Co (Singapore) Pte Ltd[2014] 4 SLR 357. 8 For a list o......
  • The Mutuality of Obligations Doctrine and Termination of the Employment Contract: McNeill v Aberdeen City Council (No 2)
    • United Kingdom
    • Edinburgh University Press Edinburgh Law Review No. , May 2014
    • 1 May 2014
    ...the statutory scheme for unfair dismissal. This was taken further in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] UKSC 58, [2012] 2 AC 22, where, in the teeth of the same policy consideration referred to in Johnson, one of the most axiomatic doctrines of the liberal com......
  • JUDGING THE EMPLOYMENT STATUS OF WORKERS: AN ANALYSIS OF COMMONSENSE REASONING.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 46 No. 1, December 2022
    • 1 December 2022
    ...B Atleson, Values and Assumptions in American Labor Law (University of Massachusetts Press, 1983) 2, 7-9 ('Values and Assumptions'). (31) [2012] 2 AC 22, 58 [110] (Baroness Hale JSC) ('Edwards'), quoted in Barmes, 'Common Law Confusion' (n 8) 118 n (32) Anderson, Brodie and Riley (n 24) 18-......