EAT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Costs
Expenses. Whether competent to award expenses where claims withdrawn but not dismissed. Whether circumstances were such as to demonstrate that the bringing and conducting of the claims was misconceived and/or unreasonable. On appeal, held that the Employment Tribunal had erred in both respects. It was competent to seek expenses where claims withdrawn but dismissal not sought and circumstances plainly indicated that the claims were both misconceived and their conduct had been unreasonable.
Lady Smith
[2012] UKEAT 0049 – 11 – 1804
Bailii
England and Wales
Employment, Costs, Scotland
Updated: 11 November 2021; Ref: scu.459932