Court clarifies that employers cannot make good a breach of duty of trust and confidence

Judgment in the key employment case of Buckland v. Bournemouth University was handed down this week (24 February 2010) in the Court of Appeal. The case examined two important issues of employment law:

Whether the conduct of an employer who is said to have committed a fundamental breach of the contract of employment is to be judged by a unitary test or a 'range of reasonable responses' test.Whether an employer who has committed a fundamental breach of contract can cure the breach while the em... (382 more words)

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