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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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