The dissolution of the employing partnership brings a contract of employment to an end.
Rigby LJ said: ‘a contract to serve four employers cannot, without express language, be construed as being a contract to serve two of them . . the dissolution of the partnership operated as the dismissal of the plaintiff not authorised by law.’
Judges:
Rigby LJ
Citations:
[1895] 2 QB 253, 36 Digest 392, [1895] 72 LT 829
Cited by:
Cited – Lavarack v Woods of Colchester Ltd CA 1967
Damages for wrongful dismissal could not confer on an employee extra benefits that the contract did not oblige the employer to confer. There is a clear distinction between expectations, however reasonable, and contractual obligations.
Diplock . .
Cited – Rose v Dodd CA 27-Jul-2005
The Law Society had intervened in the claimant’s employer’s solicitors practice. The claimant appealed refusal of an award of a redundancy payment.
Held: The intervention did not necessarily bring to an end the employer’s business, and . .
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Employment
Updated: 10 May 2022; Ref: scu.263206