Dunk v George Waller and Sons Ltd: CA 1970

‘A contract of apprenticeship secures three things for the apprentice: it secures him, first, a money payment during the period of apprenticeship. . .’ the range of remedies may be wider than under standard form of employment contact. It is of a special character and a distinct entity from other contracts of employment as its essential purpose is training, the execution of work for the employer being secondary.

Widgery LJ, Lord Denning MR
[1970] 2 QB 163
England and Wales
Cited by:
CitedEdmonds v Lawson, Pardoe, and Del Fabbro CA 10-Mar-2000
A contract of apprenticeship is synallagmatic. The master undertakes to educate and train the apprentice (or pupil) in the practical and other skills needed to practise a skilled trade (or learned profession) and the apprentice (or pupil) binds . .
CitedFlett v Matheson CA 7-Feb-2006
Appeal from finding that the appellant was not employed under a contract of apprenticeship. . .

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Updated: 27 January 2022; Ref: scu.184786