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French v Barclays Bank plc [1998] EWCA Civ 1092 is a UK labour law case concerning the contract of employment.It held that changing a staff manual can breach the term of mutual trust and confidence that is implied into every individual contract of employment, and a unilateral change to a workplace practice can breach that contract.
17 In the case of statutory redundancy payments it must be borne in mind that, as the Court held in its judgment of 8 April 1976 in Case 43/75 Defrenne v Sabena (1976) ECR 455, paragraph 40, Article 119 of the Treaty also applies to discrimination arising directly from legislative provisions. This means that benefits provided for by law may ...
The Limitation Act 1623 [10] also applied to the personal remedy on a simple contract debt which was charged on land, where there was no convenient way to pay; [11] to a simple contract debt which was recited in a deed, unless there was in the deed an express or implied contract to pay it; [12] to a warrant of attorney to confess judgment for the amount of a simple contract debt; [13] to an ...
Conflicts of laws, insurance law, Jurisdiction: The High Court of England and Wales did not have jurisdiction to hear claims relating to fraudulent misrepresentation following the loss of an insured vessel. Since Credit Europe Bank was domiciled in the Netherlands, the case should be heard in the courts of the Netherlands. [11]
legislation.gov.uk, formerly known as the UK Statute Law Database, is the official Web-accessible database of the statute law of the United Kingdom, hosted by The National Archives. Established in the early 2000s, [ 1 ] it contains all primary legislation in force since 1267 and all secondary legislation since 1823; it does not include ...
The case summaries below are not official or authoritative. Unless otherwise noted, cases were heard by a panel of 5 judges. Cases involving Scots law are highlighted in orange. Cases involving Northern Irish law are highlighted in green. List of judgments of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom delivered in 2009
Rock Advertising Ltd v MWB Business Exchange Centres Ltd [2018] UKSC 24 is a judicial decision of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom relating to contract law, concerning consideration and estoppel. Specifically it concerned the effectiveness of "no oral variation" clauses, which provide that any amendments or waiver in relation to the ...
Limitation was first brought in by Henry VIII, in the Limitation of Prescription Act 1540 (32 Hen. 8.c. 2). In modern times, the key piece of legislation relating to civil claims in England and Wales is the Limitation Act 1980, which identifies the time limits for various types of cases.