There is no common law contractual remedy for financial or other loss allegedly flowing from the manner or circumstances of an employee's dismissal, holds the House of Lords in Johnson v Unisys Ltd.
The suspension of a care worker in a children's home by her local authority employer, pending the outcome of an investigation into an allegation of child sexual abuse, amounted to a breach of the implied term of trust and confidence in her contract of employment, holds the Court of Appeal in Gogay v Hertfordshire County Council.
A provision of a contract of employment preventing the employee from working for any other business during the term of the contract could be enforced by an injunction limited to restraining the employee, during the remainder of a period of garden leave, from being employed by or advising a competitor of the employer, holds the Court of Appeal in Symbian Ltd v Christensen.
A contractual discretion whether or not to award an equity trader any, and if so what, bonus, which was "dependent upon individual performance", was one that had to be exercised both by reference to an assessment of performance of the trader's contract and not irrationally or perversely, holds the High Court in Clark v Nomura International plc.
In Wincanton Ltd v Cranny and another, the Court of Appeal holds that a non-solicitation covenant was, owing to its internal limitations, not too wide as to be unenforceable.