Clark's of Hove v Baker's Union
Clark’s of Hove v Bakers Union | |
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Court | UK Supreme Court |
Citation(s) | [1978] ICR 1076 |
Keywords | |
Redundancy, consultation |
Clark’s of Hove v Bakers Union [1978] ICR 1076 is a UK labour law case, concerning the duty to consult over redundancies.
Facts
380 workers were made redundant, and they claimed there was a failure to consult. Clark’s of Hove claimed the ‘exceptional circumstance’ was that it ceased trading on 24 October 1976 after being in financial difficulty since the summer.
Judgment
The Court of Appeal held that ‘insolvency is, on its own, neither here nor there’ and particularly where, as here, there was ‘a gradual run-down of the company’.
See also
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Redundancy cases
ERA 1996 ss and TULRCA 1992
Lesney Products & Co v Nolan [1976]
North Riding Garages v Butterwick [1967] 2 QB 56
Murphy v Epsom College [1984]
Safeway Stores plc v Burrell [1997]
Murray v Foyle Meats Ltd [1999]
High Table Ltd v Horst [1997]
Hollister v National Farmers’ Union [1979] ICR 542
Richmond Precision Engineering Ltd v Pearce [1985] IRLR 179
Catamaran Cruisers Ltd v Williams [1994] IRLR 384
Williams v Compair Maxam Ltd [1982] ICR 156
ERA 1996 s 141
Thomas Wragg & Sons Ltd v Wood [1976] ICR 313
Thomas & Betts Manufacturing Ltd v Harding [1980] IRLR 255
Optical Express Ltd v Williams [2007] IRLR 936
see UK labour law and unfair dismissal
- UK labour law