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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76 cases
  • 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
  • Andrew Gregg v North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division
    • 27 February 2018
    ...and three House of Lord authorities; Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518; Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2012] 2 AC 22 and Eastwood & Anor v Magnox Electric plc [2005] 1 AC 503. 126 In short, in its written submissions, the Trust contends that the exclusion in ......
  • Geys v Societe Generale, London Branch
    • United Kingdom
    • Supreme Court
    • 19 December 2012
    ...to claim damages for breach of a duty to follow a disciplinary procedure (see Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] UKSC 58, [2012] 2 AC 22) makes the availability of the injunction particularly precious. But it is self-evident that, had the wrongful repudiation ......
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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 ......
7 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......
  • Contractual rights and remedies for dismissed employees after the 'employment revolution'.
    • Australia
    • Melbourne University Law Review Vol. 36 No. 1, April 2012
    • 1 April 2012
    ...Coherence and the Employment Revolution' (2001) 117 Law Quarterly Review 604. See also Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Trust [2012] 2 WLR 55, 80-1 [83]-[87] (Lord Phillips) (17) See, eg, Hem v Cant (2007) 159 IR 113, 118 [20]-[22] (Finkelstein J); Honda Canada lnc v Keays [2008] 2......
  • Clashes of Principle and Competing Moral Judgments
    • United Kingdom
    • Wildy Simmonds & Hill Disagreement and dissent in Judicial Decision-making Contents
    • 29 August 2013
    ...often the case that agreement cannot be achieved as to what that should be. 20 Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] UKSC 58, [2012] 2 AC 22. The seventh member of the court preferred to decide the case on an altogether different basis. ...
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