Perkin v St George's Charitable Foundation - employee or not employee? [2005] EAT

The indomitable Mr Perkin lost his main case in the Court of Appeal in October - he had been sacked from his post as Director of Finance at St George's hospital in South London.

He brought a separate unfair dismissal claim against St George's Charitable Foundation of which he had been Treasurer. This claim was also dismissed on the basis that he was not an employee of the Foundation, a ruling upheld by the EAT