This book is an analytical study of the current English law of traditional contracts of employment and of other personal employment contracts. Concentrating on the common law basis of individual employment law, it takes full account of relevant British and European Community legislation up to and including the Employment Act 2002.

EU Law in the Member States is a new series dedicated to exploring the impact of landmark judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), as well as the secondary legislation in legal systems across the European Union. Each book in this series will be written by a team of EU lawyers and experts in the relevant fields, bringing together perspectives from a wide range of different Member States in order to compare and analyze the effect of EU law on domestic legal systems and practice. The first volume focuses on the uneasy relationship between the economic freedoms enshrined in...