Littlejohn v London County Council The appellant had been a poor law relieving officer in the service of the Stepney Guardians, who, in 1927, had made a set of regulations governing, inter alia, payment of sick pay to their officers. By the Local Government Act 1930, he was automatically transferred to the service of the respondent council, and in 1932 entered into a new contract of service with it at a higher scale of pay.