Geys v Société Générale, London Branch

Subject Matter

EMPLOYMENT — Contract of employment — Repudiation — Employee summarily dismissed in breach of contract — Payment in lieu of notice subsequently paid into employee’s bank account — Employee seeking to affirm contract — Whether express and immediate dismissal automatically terminating contract — Whether employer validly exercising contractual right to dismiss by paying payment in lieu of notice into bank account

[2012] UKSC 63; [2013] 1 AC 523; [2013] 2 WLR 50; [2013] ICR 117; [2013] 1 All ER 1061; [2012] WLR (D) 394; Case details, SC(E)

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