Teachers working in Europe were not employed in Great Britain

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• Steptoe & Johnson LLP

Two teachers working exclusively in European schools for the Department of Education and Skills in Belgium and Holland on successive fixed term contracts which were expressly governed by English law and conferred exclusive jurisdiction on the English courts were not able to show that there was sufficiently strong connections with Great Britain to satisfy the “employment in Great Britain test” in order to bring a claim for unfair dismissal. 

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