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Litster v Forth Dry Dock and Engineering Co Ltd

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An hour before the sale by the receiver of Forth Dry Dock to the Forth Estuary company, the receiver sacked all of its twelve employees. The new Forth Estuary company had another set of employees already lined up on lower pay. The receivers had no money left to pay damages for dismissal and holiday
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Lord Oliver agreed that the ECJ cases required a purposive interpretation to be given to the regulations. He noted the remedies provided ‘in the case of an insolvent transferor are largely illusory unless they can be exerted against the transferee’. The dismissals are ‘required to be treated as
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ineffective’, employment is ‘statutorily continued’ The Directive applied both to an employee at the transfer moment and one who ‘would have been so employed if he had not been unfairly dismissed in the circumstances described in regulation 8(1)’ (now regulation 7(1)).
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77/187/EC. The ‘courts of the United Kingdom are under a duty to follow the practice of the European Court of Justice by giving a purposive construction to Directives and to Regulations issued for the purpose of complying with Directive…’
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The Court of Session held that, following Spence, none of the employees were employed ‘immediately before’ the transfer. The employees appealed.
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pay. TUPER 1981 regulation 5(3) said the Regulations apply to employees who are such ‘immediately before’ the transfer (now,
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Lord Templeman held that a purposive approach should be taken, under article 4 of the
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Index

Litster v Forth Dry Dock

UKHL 10
UKHL 10
UK labour law
Business Transfers Directive 2001
TUPER 2006
TUPER 2006
Business Transfers Directive
v
t
e
Transfers of Undertakings Directive
2001/23/EC
Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Emp) Regs 2006
r 7
Litster v Forth Dry Dock
UKHL 10
Wilson v St Helens BC
UKHL 37
TUD 2001
TUPER 2006
r 4
Credit Suisse Ltd v Lister
EWCA Civ 1551
University of Oxford v Humphreys
EWCA Civ 3050
TUD 2001
TUPER 2006
r 5

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