LOMAN AND ANOTHER v. MERSEYSIDE TRANSPORT SERVICES LTD.

November 30, 1967 Master and Servant — Dismissal — Redundancy — Calculation of payment — National agreement providing for 41 hour working week in road haulage business — Local agreement providing for 68 hour working week for shunters — Whether basis of calculation of redundancy payments 41 or 68 hour week — Evidence whether employees drivers or shunters — Evidence that local agreement contractually binding — Evidence later admitted that local agreement not intended to be contractually binding — Whether later evidence on local agreement wrongly admitted — Whether National agreement varied by local agreement — Contracts of Employment Act, 1963 (11 and 12 Eliz II, C.49), Sched.2, para. 1(1), (2) — Redundancy Payments Act, 1965 (13 and 14 Eliz. II, c.62), s.1(1), Sch. I, para. 5(1) — Wages Regulation (Road Haulage) Order, 1966 (S.I. 1966. No. 554).