Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Court | Supreme Court |
| Judge | LORD DYSON,LORD WALKER,LORD PHILLIPS,LORD MANCE,LADY HALE,LORD KERR,LORD WILSON |
| Judgment Date | 14 December 2011 |
| Neutral Citation | [2011] UKSC 58 |
| Date | 14 December 2011 |
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Professor Theodora Kostakopolou v University of Warwick (corporate body incorporated by Royal Charter No RC0006678)
... ... Court again considered the Johnson principle in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Botham ... ...
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Hemmings v Tomlinson Hosp
...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......
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West London Mental Health NHS Trust v Dr Preeti Chhabra
...court may intervene in an appropriate case was made clear in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Botham v Ministry of Defence [2012] 2 AC 22, per Lord Dyson, at paragraph 44. He stated that it was open to an employee to seek an injunction to stop the employer startin......
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3 firm's commentaries
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Employment Matters - Easter 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......
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Supreme Court Gives Judgment In Edwards v Chesterfield
...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 ......
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It's Not Humbug: Recognizing The Principle Of Mutual Trust And Confidence In The Workplace
...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 ......
6 books & journal articles
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Where the Action Is: Macro and Micro Justice in Contract Law
...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......
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Damages
...[68], and [69]. 101 The Addis case [1909] AC 488 (HL), was considered by the House of Lords in Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust [2011] UKSC 58, [2012] 2 AC 22; noted, C Barnard and L Merrett [2013] CLJ 313. In particular, Lord Phillips in the Edwards case ([80] to ......
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Dismissal
...but not to a claim for career- long loss of earnings (Edwards v Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Botham v Ministry of Defence [2012] IRLR, 129, SC) (see para 25.86 below for further detail on this). In extreme cases, an employer who suspends an employee without any contrac......
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The Mutuality of Obligations Doctrine and Termination of the Employment Contract: McNeill v Aberdeen City Council (No 2)
...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......
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