Ibex Trading Co Ltd (in administration) v Walton [1994] IRLR 564 EAT

The Court of Appeal in Spaceright Europe Ltd v Baillavoine and another decided that, for there to be an automatically unfair dismissal under TUPE, there does not need to have been a particular transfer or transferee in existence or in contemplation at the at the time of the dismissal. The Court of Appeal disapproved the EAT on this point.