Employment law cases

Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; Grace v BF Components Ltd [2007] IRLR 840 EAT

Reports relating to this case:

  • Contracts of employment: Contract rendered illegal only where facts misrepresented

    Date:
    16 October 2007

    In Enfield Technical Services Ltd v Payne; Grace v BF Components Ltd EAT/0644/06, the EAT holds that the contracts of employment were not tainted by illegality because, although the parties had wrongly characterised them as contracts of self-employment, in neither case had the parties misrepresented to the authorities the facts of their relationship.