The government has power to abolish a public service post, and it is an ‘elementary proposition that if further performance of a contract becomes impossible by legislation having that effect the contract is discharged’.
Judges:
Lord Atkin
Citations:
[1934] AC 176
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Perch, Dennie and Commissiong v The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago PC 20-Feb-2003
PC (Trinidad and Tobago) The postal system had been transferred to a company. Employees complained that they had been public servants and had lost privileges associated with that employment, and provisions of the . .
Cited – Verner, Sheppard, Ridley v Derby City Council, Norfolk County Council, St Thomas More Roman Catholic High School QBD 14-Nov-2003
The question was whether, when a teacher has applied for and accepted ill-health retirement benefit, usually a lump sum and a pension, on the ground of permanent incapacity, there exists a public law duty on his employer to dismiss the employee.
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Administrative
Updated: 11 July 2022; Ref: scu.186586