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Taff Vale Case
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Taff Vale Rly Co v Amalgamated Society of Rly Servants.
Taff Vale Railway Co v Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants [1901] UKHL 1, commonly known as the Taff Vale case, is a formative case in UK labour law. It held that, at common law, unions could be liable for loss of profits to employers that were caused by taking strike action.