Knight v Attorney General

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CourtEmployment Appeal Tribunal
Year1979
Date1979

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  • Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Polive v Liversidge
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 24 May 2002
    ...subsection (1), as otherwise why is the scope of its application limited to Parts II and IV rather than to the whole Act? In Knight v Attorney General [1979] ICR 194, the EAT, Slynn J presiding, accepted an argument on those lines. Mrs Cox had no answer to this point, which seems to me to b......
  • Claire Gilham v Ministry of Justice
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 21 December 2017
    ...not amount to an agreement that he is to be appointed for a definite period and not at the pleasure of the Crown.” 42 In Knight v Attorney-General [1979] ICR 194 a female candidate for appointment as a justice of the peace whose application had been unsuccessful brought proceedings under th......
  • Gilham v Ministry for Justice
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
    ... ... , in section 43K, as inserted, was carefully identified and delineated, preserving the general rule that a contractual relationship was required save only in a limited number of circumstances; ... 4 All ER 745 , SC(E) Harb v Aziz [2016] EWCA Civ 556 ; [ 2016 ] 3 FCR 194 , CA Knight v Attorney General [ 1979 ] ICR 194 , EAT Kudeshkina v Russia ( 2009 ) 52 EHRR 37 ... ...
  • Hashwani v Jivraj
    • United Kingdom
    • Queen's Bench Division (Commercial Court)
    • 26 June 2009
    ...28 In the general context of employment, it has been held that judges, magistrates and tribunal chairmen are not employed: i) In Knight v A-G [1979] ICR 194 an aspiring magistrate made a complaint under the Sexual Discrimination Act 1976. The definition of the employment for the purposes of......
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