COURT OF APPEAL (CIVIL DIVISION)
ON APPEAL FROM BIRMINGHAM COUNTY COURT
(HIS HONOUR JUDGE MCKENNA)
Strand London WC2 Thursday 9th May 2002 |
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B e f o r e :
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LADY JUSTICE HALE
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BAYLISS | Claimant/Respondent | |
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LUNT | Defendant/Applicant |
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MS C ROWLANDS (instructed by RUSSELL & CO SOLICITORS, MALVERN, WORCS. WR14 2AH) appeared on behalf of the Respondent.
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"Mrs Challis' evidence which, as I say, I accept was that the starting salary of a CAD operator was in the range of £10,000 to £16,000 rising to perhaps £20,000 with five years or more experience but with a possibility of earning more than that, perhaps £24,000 or even in some cases up to £30,000 although her evidence was that it was likely that other qualifications would be needed to support such salary expectations, perhaps engineering qualifications and the like. In her view the claimant could expect a salary in the region of £15,000 to £17,000 at present. By contrast, as a teacher, she could have expected to start at about £17,000 and that her salary would then rise by regular annual increments to perhaps £25,000 after seven years."