Wickens v Champion Employment

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Date1984
Year1984
CourtEmployment Appeal Tribunal
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7 cases
  • McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment
    • United Kingdom
    • Employment Appeal Tribunal
    • Invalid date
  • McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 11 December 1996
    ...engagements to which the law will, in some instances but not in others, attribute independent contractual effect. 22 Wickens v Champion Employment [1984] ICR 366 was a case which, like the present, concerned an employment agency, but in a rather different context. The dismissed applicant ha......
  • Bunce v Postworth Ltd trading as Skyblue
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • 4 May 2005
    ...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 authorities referred to by Mummery LJ a......
  • Clark v Oxfordshire Health Authority
    • United Kingdom
    • Court of Appeal (Civil Division)
    • Invalid date
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4 books & journal articles
  • 2. The Statutory Floor of Employment Rights: A Bad Case of Subsidence?
    • United Kingdom
    • Emerald Employee Relations No. 9-5, May 1987
    • 1 May 1987
    ...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......
  • Globalisation and the labouragenda in small economies, with special reference to Guyana
    • Barbados
    • Caribbean Law Review No. 9-2, December 1999
    • 1 December 1999
    ...responsibilities 40 Supra,. n. 16, s.2(e). 41 Ibid. ,s.2(b). 42 Ibid. s. 2(d). 43 Ibid . s.2(g). 44 Wickens v. Champion Employment [1984] I.C.R. 365; but see McMeechan v. Secretary of State for Employment [1997] I.C.R. 549. 45 Ibid. s.8(1)(a). 46 Ibid. means [sic] the responsibilities in re......
  • Agency Workers, Employment Rights and the Ebb and Flow of Freedom of Contract
    • United Kingdom
    • Wiley The Modern Law Review No. 72-1, January 2009
    • 1 January 2009
    ...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......
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