The Weekly Law Reports
[1983] 3 WLR 730
[COURT OF APPEAL]
WESTWOOD
v.
SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EMPLOYMENT
1983 March 21,
22,
23;
June 28
June 28
Eveleigh, O'Connor, Purchas L.JJ.
Employment
— Employer's insolvency
— Debt due to employee
— Dismissal without notice or payment in lieu
— Employee receiving social security benefits
— Whether Secretary of State entitled to deduct benefits from notice payment
— Whether employee under duty to mitigate loss
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Employment Protection (Consolidation) Act 1978 (c. 44), ss. 49(1), 50(1), 122(1)(3), Sch. 3, para. 2