Atkinson and others v Governors of St Michael's School EAT/142/98

Construction of contract: Teachers without written contracts did not all have the same notice period

Date:

1 November 1999

In Atkinson and others v Governors of St Michael's School, the EAT holds that an employment tribunal was wrong to imply into the employment contracts of teachers, only some of whose letters of appointment did not refer to notice, the notice clause in a standard-form contract by reference to which none of them had been appointed.