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High days & pay-offs

22 October 2009 / Ian Smith
Issue: 7390 / Categories: Features , Employment
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Ian Smith celebrates the highs & lows of recent tribunal decisions

In a month notable for the high-profile rejection of the “Heyday” challenge to the default retirement age of 65, but in a way that strongly suggested that it will need to be removed when the government carries out its promised review of it (now to be in 2010 rather than 2011 as originally indicated) and for the equally newsworthy decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that an employee who is sick while taking holiday can ask for the holiday to be rescheduled, the cases considered here are at the opposite end of the employment law spectrum where there is no obvious news and/or political interest, but where pronouncements on points of common law or statutory interpretation can have just as great an effect on the longer-term development of the law.

Ultra vires contracts

While it has always been clear that employment under an illegal contract is potentially void, destroying any rights, what is the position where the contract is ultra

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MOVERS & SHAKERS

Birketts—trainee cohort

Birketts—trainee cohort

Firm welcomes new cohort of 29 trainee solicitors for 2025

Keoghs—four appointments

Keoghs—four appointments

Four partner hires expand legal expertise in Scotland and Northern Ireland

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Brabners—Ben Lamb

Real estate team in Yorkshire welcomes new partner

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