The Law Reports (Chancery Division)
[1986] Ch 20
[CHANCERY DIVISION]
THOMAS AND OTHERS v. NATIONAL UNION OF MINEWORKERS (SOUTH WALES AREA) AND OTHERS
[1985 T. No. 60]
1985 Jan. 22,
23,
24,
25,
30,
31;
Feb. 4, 5, 6; 11
Feb. 4, 5, 6; 11
Scott J.
Industrial Relations
— Pickets
— Attendance at place
— Picketing in large numbers outside colliery gates in furtherance of trade dispute
— Arrangements made by individual colliery lodges
— Picketing outside miners' homes and other buildings
— Picketing accompanied by verbal abuse and threats of violence
— Interference with right to use public highway
— Whether tortious
— Whether union vicariously liable for lodges
— Whether individual members of trade union entitled to restrain ultra vires actions by union
— Whether secondary picketing necessarily tortious
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Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act 1875 (38 & 39 Vict. c. 86), s. 7
[1]
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Trade Union and Labour Relations Act 1974 (c. 52), ss 13, 15(1) [2] (as amended by Trade Union and Labour Relations (Amendment) Act 1976 (c. 7), s. 3(2) and Employment Act 1980 (c. 42), s. 16(1))
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Employment Act 1980, ss. 16(2), 17
[3]