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Law Digests: 14 October 2022

14 October 2022
Issue: 7998 / Categories: Case law , In Court , Law digest
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Employment

108 Medical Ltd v Millar [2022] EWHC 2303 (KB), [2022] All ER (D) 04 (Oct)

The King’s Bench Division held that the claimant company had proved that the defendant (an accountant and former employee of the claimant) had made, and received, sums of money from the claimant that had exceeded those that he had been contractually entitled to. The defendant had argued that the relevant payments had either all been accounted for by means of salary sacrifice, and/or that they had been separately agreed with the then majority shareholder and ‘guiding force’ of the claimant, without any change to the defendant’s contract of employment or any other memoranda or paperwork being created regarding the same. The court ruled that: (i) the defendant’s remuneration package was as set out in his contract of employment; (ii) the court had not been taken to any documentary evidence to demonstrate that that contract had ever been varied; (iii) on the facts, the tort of conversion was complete and the defendant was liable to repay the

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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

NEWS
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Writing in NLJ this week, Thomas Rothwell and Kavish Shah of Falcon Chambers unpack the surprise inclusion of a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill
Charles Pigott of Mills & Reeve charts the turbulent progress of the Employment Rights Bill through the House of Lords, in this week's NLJ
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