Contract termination: contractor not waiving, employer drowning

• Author:
• CMS Cameron McKenna

In the light of a recent decision in the Court of Appeal, employers should be wary of assuming that a default, even if highly technical, if repeated say a year later, might not be used to determine the contractor’s employment under the contract. There are similar lessons for contractors.

The long-running litigation between Reinwood and Brown (part of which went to the House of Lords) has thrown up an interesting illustration of how an old payment default can come back to haunt an... (516 more words)

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