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Clark's of Hove v Baker's Union

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Clark’s of Hove v Bakers Union
CourtUK Supreme Court
Citation[1978] ICR 1076
Keywords
Redundancy, consultation

Clark’s of Hove v Bakers Union [1978] ICR 1076 is a UK labour law case, concerning the duty to consult over redundancies.

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380 workers were made redundant, and they claimed there was a failure to consult. Clark’s of Hove claimed the ‘exceptional circumstance’ was that it ceased trading on 24 October 1976 after being in financial difficulty since the summer.

Judgment

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The Court of Appeal held that ‘insolvency is, on its own, neither here nor there’ and particularly where, as here, there was ‘a gradual run-down of the company’.

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