Category: Commonwealth

Cable and Wireless (West Indies) Ltd v Tonge (Deceased) and Others: PC 28 Sep 2010

(Antigua and Barbuda) The company appealed against an award of severance pay to several employees.
Held: The appeal failed. A collective agreement was in place with the unions, but a method of calculating severance pay on redundancy had not been agreed, so the company settled on paying four weeks’ pay for each year of service and other benefits. The company had failed to include any element reflecting a graduation of the awards accoring to the length of service. The Board’s award had been taken as an exercise of its discretion,and none of the criticisms made showed that any part of the decision was in error or in excess.

Judges:

Lord Phillips, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Mance, Lord Collins

Citations:

[2010] UKPC 25

Links:

Bailii

Commonwealth, Employment

Updated: 24 August 2022; Ref: scu.424723

De Comas v Prost and Kohler: PC 13 Mar 1865

New South Wales

Citations:

[1865] EngR 311, (1865) 3 Moo PC NS 158, (1865) 16 ER 59, [1865] UKPC 17

Links:

Commonlii, Bailii

Cited by:

Cited – Bailey and Another v Angove’s Pty Ltd SC 27-Jul-2016
The defendant had agreed to act as the claimant’s agent and distributor of the claimant’s wines in the UK. It acted both as agent and also bought wines on its own account. When the defendant went into litigation the parties disputed the right of the . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Commonwealth, Agency

Updated: 24 August 2022; Ref: scu.423908

The Montreal Street Railway Company and Another v Roch Normandin: PC 23 Jan 1917

(Quebec)

Citations:

[1917] UKPC 2

Links:

Bailii

Cited by:

Cited – TTM v London Borough of Hackney and Others CA 14-Jan-2011
The claimant had been found to have been wrongfully detained under section 3. He appealed against rejection of his claim for judicial review and for damages. The court found that his detention was lawful until declared otherwise. He argued that the . .
Cited – Director of Public Prosecutions of the Virgin Islands v Penn PC 8-May-2008
(British Virgin Islands) The Board considered a case about a failure to comply with the statutory provisions for the empanelling of jurors to try a criminal case. Lord Mance said: ‘The modern tendency is no longer to seek to identify or distinguish . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.

Commonwealth, Personal Injury

Updated: 24 August 2022; Ref: scu.423498