Taylor Wessing | United Kingdom | 17 Apr 2019
Faced with a Disciplinary complaint against an employee, an employer's first reaction is often to take what may be perceived as the fair approach…
Herrington Carmichael LLP | United Kingdom | 12 Apr 2019
The duty of good faith has no universally accepted meaning and what it means in a construction contract will depend on the contract in question and…
A&L Goodbody | Ireland, United Kingdom | 10 Apr 2019
In the recent case of Bates v Post Office [2019] EWHC 606 (QB) (Bates) the English High Court found that an implied duty to act in good faith exists…
Hill Dickinson | United Kingdom | 6 Mar 2019
Did a school commit a repudiatory breach of the implied term of trust and confidence, when it suspended a teacher so that it could investigate her…
Arthur Cox LLP | Ireland | 6 Sep 2018
Oppression of a minority shareholder is often carried out through otherwise lawful actions of the majority in exercise of their strict legal rights…
Bird & Bird LLP | United Kingdom | 30 May 2018
Employers who unilaterally reduce an employee's contractual pay cannot rely on having 'reasonable and proper cause' to breach the implied term of…
Hill Dickinson | United Kingdom | 15 May 2018
The High Court has recently granted an injunction to a doctor to restrain his employer from proceeding with its internal disciplinary processes until…
Hill Dickinson | United Kingdom | 1 May 2018
In a judgment this morning in Kaur -v- Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (the trust), the Court of Appeal has clarified the law on waiver of…
Addleshaw Goddard LLP | United Kingdom | 21 Dec 2017
Mobility clause was too widely drafted meaning that employees had not behaved unreasonably in refusing to move and subsequent dismissals were unfair:…
BDB Pitmans LLP | United Kingdom | 30 Nov 2017
Giving a false or incorrect reason for terminating employment could: Breach mutual trust and confidence Release the employee from restrictive…