Secretary of State for Trade and Industry v Lassman and others [2000] IRLR 411 CA

Redundancy payments: Payments made by Secretary of State on basis of misdirection in law were valid

Date:

1 July 2000

The Secretary of State was empowered to make payments out of the National Insurance Fund to employees who became redundant on their employer's insolvency, even though the decision to make the payments was reached on what turned out to be a mistaken view of the law, holds the Court of Appeal in Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and Industry v Lassman and others.