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Settlement agreements

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  • Date:
    2 July 2004
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Practice and procedure: "Without prejudice" discussions admissible

    In BNP Paribas v Mezzotero the EAT holds that discussions "without prejudice" between an employer and an employee who had raised a grievance in respect of her treatment on returning from maternity leave, could be relied on by the employee in support of her sex discrimination and victimisation complaints.

  • Date:
    1 December 2001
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Compromise agreements: Failure to agree all the terms of a compromise agreement was fatal

    The Court of Appeal holds in Asamoah-Boakye v Walter Rodney Housing Association Ltd that there was no termination by mutual agreement where the parties failed to agree on all the terms of the agreement, including the incorporation of those terms into a valid compromise agreement, with the result that it was never signed by the parties.

  • Date:
    1 December 2001
    Type:
    Employment law cases

    Compromise agreements: Void compromise agreement did not prevent employment relationship continuing

    In Eastbourne Borough Council v Foster, the Court of Appeal holds that where a contract of employment was varied and subsequently terminated pursuant to a compromise agreement later found to be void, the original contract was repudiated by conduct, not brought to an end by mutual consent, and replaced by a new contract.