LIST OF CASES / Clark v Nomura International plc (QBD) 2000

[2000] IRLR 766, High Court, QBD.

NOTES

Clark v Nomura International plc [2000] IRLR 766, QBD Burton J on 6th September 2000, case no 00/TLQ/0092.

An example of a case in which

an employer's decision not to pay a discretionary bonus to an employee who was under notice of dismissal was such a perverse exercise of that discretion that the employee was entitled to claim the bonus (in this case amounting to £1.35m) as damages for wrongful dismissal.

For relevant general notes see Implied terms in employment contracts/duties of employer and/or Wrongful dismissal/damages for .

There is also a useful discussion of the legal detail of this case by counsel for the employee in Richard Lieper's notes on the 11 King's Bench Walk web site

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prepared Oct2000.