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26 May 2011
Issue: 7467 / Categories: Case law , Law reports
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Unfair dismissal—Compensation—Calculation

Wardle v Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank [2011] EWCA Civ 545, [2011] All ER (D) 101 (May)

Court of Appeal, Civil Division, Lord Neuberger MR, Smith and Elias LJJ, 11 May 2011

The Court of Appeal has given guidance on assessing future loss by reference to a dismissed employee’s whole career.

Simon Cheetham and Amy Stroud (instructed by Pritchard Englefield Solicitors) for the employee. Christopher Jeans QC and Paul Nicholls (instructed by Osborne Clarke Solicitors) for the employer.

The employer was a French corporate and investment bank. The employee worked for the bank from May 2005 until he was dismissed in July 2008. He was based in the bank’s London office as the head of exotic interest rate derivatives in the market risk management department. Following his dismissal, he brought proceedings for discrimination on the ground of his nationality or national origin, with reference to the failure to appoint him to the post of head of interest rate derivatives in the market risk management department on 30 January 2008. He further contended that that his dismissal

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