Johnson v Unisys Ltd
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judge | LORD BINGHAM OF CORNHILL,LORD NICHOLLS OF BIRKENHEAD,LORD STEYN,LORD HOFFMANN,LORD MILLETT |
| Judgment Date | 22 March 2001 |
| Neutral Citation | [2001] UKHL 13 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 22 March 2001 |
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Eastwood v Magnox Electric Plc
...in accordance with ordinary contractual principles. Johnson's case 8 The ramifications of this decision came under scrutiny in Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518. In Johnson's case the plaintiff sought to extend the Mahmud principle further. He sought to rely on breach of the trust and c......
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Dunnachie v Kingston upon Hull City Council
...Tool was generally assumed to reflect the correct legal position until it was called into question in the judgment of Lord Hoffmann in Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 5 While there may arguably be differences of opinion about the exact ratio decidendi of Johnson v Unisys, I am content to ......
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Vadim Don Benyatov v Credit Suisse Securities (Europe) Ltd
... ... 114 Next, Mr. Goulding referred to the decision of the Court of Appeal in Greenway v Johnson Matthey plc [2016] EWCA Civ 408 ; [2016] 1 W.L.R. 4487 (“ Greenway ”). The first question was whether on the facts of the case the ... Accordingly, I do not need to consider the effect of the House of Lords decision in Johnson v Unisys Limited [2001] UKHL 13 , [2003] 1 AC 518 on this part of the Claimant's case. Paragraph 19.7 of the Particulars of Claim ... ...
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7 firm's commentaries
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Employee Competition: Recent Cases
...the contract so that it is consistent with and conforms to, them." He considered Malik v BCCI [1997] IRLR 462 and Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2001] IRLR 279, in which Lord Steyn described the implied obligation of trust and confidence as "an overarching obligation implied by law as an incident of......
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Complex Commercial Litigation Law Review – England & Wales
...Ltd v. Parkside Homes Ltd 1 WLR 798. 49 Morris-Garner and another v. One Step (Support) Ltd [2018] UKSC 20. 50 Johnson v. Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518 at paragraph © 2019 Law Business Research Ltd England & Wales 70 Ltd v. Beavis, the Supreme Court held that the test for whether or not a pena......
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Employment Contracts: The Implied Term Of Mutual Trust And Confidence
...dismissal scheme must rely upon that scheme rather than making a common law breach of contract claim (for example, Johnson v Unisys [2003] 1 AC 518 and New South Wales v Paige (2002) 60 NSWLR 371); damages can only be recovered in respect of loss or damage suffered as a result of an employe......
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Mutual trust and confidence in employment contracts: has the door to damages been thrust open?
...has access to statutory unfair dismissal laws or statutory mechanisms to pursue their grievances (applied in Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518 and South Australia v McDonald (2009) 104 SASR 344 – the Johnson Rule); and second, where it is implied and a breach occurs, damages cannot be aw......
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27 books & journal articles
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Human rights responsibilities of private corporations.
...at 195, 249 n. 11 (noting U.S. cases concerning human right to freedom of association in the work environment); Johnson v. Unisys, Ltd., [2001] UKHL/13 (2001) (discussing freedom from unfair dismissal, employee "individual dignity and worth," and company's liability under domestic employmen......
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The legal and commercial frameworks
...are important to whether obiter dicta will be applied by a later court, even though strictly not bound to do so. 72 Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518 at 539 [37], per Lord Hofmann, at 549 [77], per Lord Millett. See also Deutsche Morgan Grenfell Group plc v HM Commissioners of Inland Rev......
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Employers' Liability at Common Law: Two Competing Paradigms
...reputation.2020See, in particular, Lord Steyn at 51. The decision in Malik was qualified by the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd [2003] 1 AC 518, in which it was held that the trust duty did not apply to the termination of the employment contract. Since Malik it has also been establis......
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Where the Action Is: Macro and Micro Justice in Contract Law
...for employment lawyers in recent years being the conflict withthe Johnson exclusion zone first articulated in 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 vNom......
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