Wickens v Champion Employment
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Date | 1984 |
| Court | Employment Appeal Tribunal |
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6 cases
- McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment
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McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment
...it was a long term engagement with Parcelforce. 6. Like the Tribunal on 13 August, we have been referred to Wickens v Champion Employment [1984] ICR 365 which was a claim under S 64 A(1) of the Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (as it then was). It was necessary in that case to......
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Bunce v Postworth Ltd trading as Skyblue
...to conclude that an individual is an employee simply because he is not a self employed person carrying on a business of his own: Wickens v Champion Employment [1984] ICR 365 at 371 and Ironmonger v Movefield Ltd [1988] IRLR 461 at paragraphs 19–21." I note in passing that those two authorit......
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Brook Street Bureau (UK) Ltd v Patricia Dacas
...is an employee simply because he is not a self employed person carrying on a business of his own: Wickens v. Champion Employment [1984] ICR 365 at 371 and Ironmonger v. Movefield Ltd [1988] IRLR 461 at paragraphs 19–21. 50 The real problem for the tribunals is the application of the basic l......
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2 books & journal articles
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2. The Statutory Floor of Employment Rights: A Bad Case of Subsidence?
...the regular casual list. This sort of narrow reasoning is also to be found in the judgment of the EAT in Wickens v. Champion Employment (1984) ICR 365[9] where "temps" engaged by a private employment agency were not accorded employment status because of the lack of binding obligation on the......
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Agency Workers, Employment Rights and the Ebb and Flow of Freedom of Contract
...PersonalEmployment Contract (Oxford:OUP,20 03) ch 1.2 on grounds of lack of mutuality of obligation:Wic kens vChampion Employment[1984]ICR 365.3 See eg A.T. Kronman,‘ContractLaw and Distributive Justice’(1989)Yale LJ 472.r2009 The Authors. Journal Compilation r2009 The Modern LawReview Limi......