Wilson v Racher

rdf:langString Wilson v Racher

rdf:langString Wilson v Racher

rdf:langString [1974] ICR 428, [1974] IRLR 114

rdf:langString Court of Appeal

rdf:langString Edmund Davies LJ, Cairns LJ and James LJ

rdf:langString Wilson v Racher [1974] ICR 428 is a UK labour law case concerning constructive dismissal. It serves as an example of an employer being found to have wrongfully dismissed an employee, because of the employer's own bad behaviour. Edmund-Davies LJ also made an important statement about the modern employment relationship, What would today be regarded as almost an attitude of Czar-serf, which is to be found in some of the older cases where a dismissed employee failed to recover damages, would, I venture to think, be decided differently today. We have by now come to realise that a contract of service imposes upon the parties a duty of mutual respect.