Benjamin Mendy v Manchester City Football Club

Nick De Marco KC represented the former Premier League football player, Benjamin Mendy, in his multi-million pound unauthorised deduction from wages claim before the Manchester Employment tribunal. The Club had claimed it was entitled to withhold around £11 million of wages due under Mr Mendy’s contract because of him being either in custody, subject to bail conditions or subject to an FA Safeguarding ban preventing him from playing football while awaiting trial for criminal allegations he was subsequently acquitted for, but the Tribunal found that for the most part of the 22-month period wages were not paid, Manchester City had acted unlawfully.

Employment Judge Dunlop said that “I doubt that quite so much legal expertise and endeavour has ever before been expended in the prosecution and defence of a wages claim brought by a single claimant. But then, I am also fairly sure that no other single claimant has ever alleged that sums in the region of £11 million have been deducted from his wages.”

A full copy of the judgment is available here.