Secretary of State for Employment v Spence

JurisdictionEngland & Wales
CourtCourt of Appeal (Civil Division)
Date1986
Year1986

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  • Robert Graham Hynd V. David J. Armstrong And Others+messrs Bishops, Solicitors And Others
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Session
    • 27 February 2007
    ...Jauncey of Tullichettle expressed agreement, distinguished (at page 118) the earlier case of Secretary of State for Employment v Spence [1987] Q.B. 179 by drawing attention to the findings in the latter case "first, that the sequence of events was the result of independent action by the rec......
  • Martin v Lancashire County Council
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 16 May 2000
    ...that para. (2) therefore cannot be limited to contractual rights and liabilities. Considerations such as these weighed with Balcombe L.J. in Spence and with Mummery J. in DJM 36 It is to my mind significant that by common consent all contractual rights and liabilities are transferred. They ......
  • Litster v Forth Dry Dock and Engineering Company Ltd
    • United Kingdom
    • House of Lords
    • 16 March 1989
    ...as employers. In so deciding, the Second Division followed the decision of the Court of Appeal in England in Secretary of State for Employment v. Spence [1987] Q.B. 179, which was decided on 15 May 1986, that is to say, after the date of the decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal. At th......
  • Humphreys v Oxford University
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 20 December 1999
    ...–v—Doncaster Amalgamated Quarries Limited [1940] AC 1014 per Viscount Simon L.C. at p.1020, re-iterated by Balcombe LJ in Secretary of State for Employment –v—Spence [1986] ICR 651 at 660G-661D when considering the effect of the "statutory novation" provided for in Regulation 5(1) of the 1......
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