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Court of Appeal emphasises the difficulty of public authorities escaping contractual commitments on the basis of ultra vires arguments

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • August 6 2010

In Rose Gibb v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust 2010 EWCA Civ 678, the Court of Appeal (Laws LJ giving the leading judgment) overruled a decision by the High Court that a Compromise Agreement entered into by the defendant Trust to secure an early termination of its former Chief Executive's employment was ultra vires and therefore unenforceable

Employers may have to permit carryover of statutory holiday lost due to illness

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 29 2010

Both public and private sector employees may be entitled to carry over statutory holiday lost through illness

TUPE: local authority Two-Tier Code withdrawn; consultation on fair deal

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 5 2011

The government has withdrawn the local authority Two-Tier Code (formally, the Code of Practice on Workforce Matters in Local Authority Service Contracts) from 23 March 2011