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June 13, 1974 Master and Servant — Redundancy — Dismissal for redundancy — Redundancy payment — Computation of period of continuous employment — Transfer of business on undertaking — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c. 49), Sch. 1 para. 10 (2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62), ss. 1, 3(1), (2), 13 (2), 24, Sch. 1, para. 1.

May 2, 1969 Master and Servant — Wrongful dismissal — Trade union member — Contract of employment incorporating agreement between employers' association and union — Employers' association terminating agreement by notice to union district delegate — Effect on contract of employment between union member and employer — Whether contract of employment terminated.

April 18, 1967 Confidence — Confidential information — Duty — Patented invention — Confidential disclosure of similar features during business negotiations — Unconscious use of information without consent — Partly public and partly private information — Damages.

May 10, 1971 Master and Servant — Contract of employment — “International contract” — Dutch company recruiting European personnel to work on oil rigs outside their countries of origin — Printed form in Americanised English adaptable for different nationals — Payment in sterling — Clause stating that employers Dutch and contract wholly performable outside employee's country of origin — Clause under which employee accepting company's benefit programme in case of accident in lieu of all rights under law of his own country — Provision in clause excluding employers' liability void in English law — Englishman entering into contract in England for work on rig off Nigerian coast — Injury at work after two weeks — Action for damages for negligence begun in England against Dutch employers — Whether proper law governing contract Dutch or English — Whether injured Englishman confined to benefits under benefit programme valid in Dutch international contract.