Case report round-up: Agreement to new contract implied from employee's application for benefit

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Agreement to new contract could be implied from employee's application for benefit under it In FW Farnsworth Ltd and another v Lacy and others [2013] IRLR 198 HC, the High Court held that an employee's agreement to a new contract that he had declined to sign could be implied from his application for a benefit to which he was entitled under that contract.
Claim cannot be more conveniently disposed of by a tribunal if it would be time barred In Abdulla and others v Birmingham City Council [2013] IRLR 38 SC, the Supreme Court held that the civil courts may not strike out an equal pay claim as being more conveniently disposed of by the employment tribunal when the claim cannot be pursued there because it is out of time.

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