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October 5, 1973 Industrial Training — Industrial training levy — Road transport industry — Company providing haulage mainly outside Great Britain — Liability for levy — Company disputing liability — Whether company engaging “mainly in activities not being road transport activities' — Industrial Training Act, 1964 (c.16), s.12(2) — Industrial Training (Road Transport Board) Order, 1969 (S.I. 1969, No. 879), Sch. para. 1(b), 2(a)(i) — Industrial Training Levy (Road Transport) Order, 1971 (S.I.1971, No. 1049), art. 2(1)(o), 3(1).

Knight's Industrial Law Reports goes into a new style and format as Managerial Law This issue of KILR is restyled Managerial Law and it now appears on a continuous updating basis rather than as a monthly routine affair.

A distinction must be drawn between a dismissal on the one hand, and on the other a repudiation of a contract of employment as a result of a breach of a fundamental term of that contract. When such a repudiation has been accepted by the innocent party then a termination of employment takes place. Such termination does not constitute dismissal (see London v. James Laidlaw & Sons Ltd (1974) IRLR 136 and Gannon v. J. C. Firth (1976) IRLR 415 EAT).

December 13, 1967 Master and Servant — Redundancy — “Transfer of trade or business” — Assignment of factory premises, fixtures, fittings, plant and machinery — Purchasers entitled to benefit of trade agreements, licences and use of part of vendors' name — No assignment of goodwill or stock in trade — Vendors to carry on business and management of employees until completion of contract — Whether “trade or business transferred” — Employees continuing to work for purchasers — Whether continuously employed — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c.49), Sch.1, para. 10(2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62), s.1(1), Sch.1,para.1(1).

February 5, 1974 Industrial Relations — Pickets — Attendance at place — Breach of peace anticipated by police officer in charge — Police cordons formed to prescribe path through crowd for vehicle to gain access to highway from site — Pickets cleared from prescribed path — Whether right in pickets infringed by police action — Whether picket having immunity from prosecution and action in tort in certain circumstances — Industrial Relations Act, 1971 (c. 72), s. 134.

December 21, 1966 Master and servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Dismissal for personal deficiencies — New methods introduced after take‐over of garage business — Workshop manager unable to adapt to new methods and standards required — New workshop manager engaged after dismissal — New manager's duties not identical — Whether dismissal by reason of “redundancy” — Relevance of allocation of duties between individuals — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (13 & 14 Eliz.II, c.62), ss. 1,9(2).

November 25, 1966 Master and servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Employee warned that department closing down and services not required after closure — Date for closure not fixed — Offer to find employee alternative employment elsewhere — Employee finding other employment before closure — Notice given to employers to determine employment — Whether employee entitled to redundancy payment — Whether “dismissed” — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965, (c.62), ss. 1,3.

May 11, 1967 Master and Servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Residence on premises for operation of emergency service — Motor fitter working in garage — Vacant possession of employee's residence required by employer — Offer to re‐employ as non‐resident fitter — Whether business for which employee employed ceased — Whether requirements for work of a particular kind ceased — Whether dismissal by reason of redundancy — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c.62),s.1.

April 8, 1974 Factory — Asbestos dust — Crocidolite — Demolition work including process of removal of lagging — No knowledge or reasonable grounds for supposing crocidolite involved in lagging — Obligation to give advance notice of beginning of process — Obligation to provide approved respiratory protective equipment and protective clothing — Whether absolute — Asbestos Regulations, 1969 (S.I. 1969 No. 690), regs. 6(2), 8(1) (a) (b).

March 30, 1971 Redundancy — Redundancy payment — Calculation — Contract of employment with normal working hours — Payment of allowance for time and expense for employee travelling from home to remote place of work — Whether to be taken into account — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (c. 49), Sch. 2, para. 2(1) (2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (c. 62),s. 1(1), Sch. 1, para. 5(2).