addis v gramophone co ltdの例文
- ""'Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd " "'[ 1909 ] AC 488 is an old English contract law and UK labour law case, which used to restrict damages for non-pecuniary losses for breach of contract.
- My Lords, such an approach would in this country have to circumvent or overcome the obstacle of " Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd " [ 1909 ] AC 488, in which it was decided that an employee cannot recover damages for injured feelings, mental distress or damage to his reputation, arising out of the manner of his dismissal.
- In this context, " Johnson ( A . P . ) v . Unisys Limited " [ 2001 ] UKHL 13 rejects any interpretation of " Addis v Gramophone Co Ltd " that might have prevented an action for damage to reputation or for psychiatric injury arising from dismissal, but confirms formidable evidential difficulties on causation : How, for example, would the employee prove that his psychiatric condition was caused by the manner of the dismissal rather than the fact of the dismissal which is within an employer's power for cause?
