EAT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE JURISDICTIONAL POINTS A Claimant brought proceedings against a parent company, and properly completed early conciliation procedures in respect of the matter between them. Once proceedings had been issued, the parent company argued that the proper Respondents were four subsidiaries of it. The Claimant successfully applied to amend to substitute those subsidiaries … Continue reading Drake International Systems Ltd and Others v Blue Arrow Ltd (Practice and Procedure): EAT 27 Jan 2016

EAT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Amendment TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS – Transfer TRANSFER OF UNDERTAKINGS – Consultation and other information Application to amend existing ET proceedings to add a claim against a Second Respondent (the transferee in a TUPE transfer). Without determining the date of the transfer but assuming liability for the Claimant’s employment and any … Continue reading Mist v Derby Community Health Services NHS Trust (Practice and Procedure: Amendment): EAT 22 Jan 2016

The claimant had been summarily dismissed. His application at first made no mention of a complaint that it had related to his trades union activities. He wrote to the secretary seeking amendment of his claim to include a claim that his dismissal was automatically unfair by reason of those activities. By this time the three … Continue reading Selkent Bus Co Ltd v Moore: EAT 2 May 1996

Practice and Procedure: Preliminary Issues. The claimant appealed against the dismissal of her claim on the basis that she had not first taken the matter to conciliation through ACAS. He claim was of sexual harrassment and she had an interdict to prevent the employer contacting her. The rule excluding such claims appeared strict, but the … Continue reading Cranwell v Cullen (Practice and Procedure: Preliminary Issues): EAT 20 Mar 2015

JURISDICTIONAL POINTS – 2002 Act and pre-action requirements The employment judge had erred in rejecting a second claim brought by the Claimant against the same two Respondents as an earlier claim (the first claim) brought by him. The first and second claims were claims ‘relating to’ the same ‘matter’ for the purposes of the early … Continue reading Akhigbe v St Edwards Home Ltd and Others: EAT 8 Mar 2019

EAT Practice and Procedure : Amendment – Amendment of an ET claim to add a new cause of action – ACAS Early Conciliation (Section 18A Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (as amended)) At a Preliminary Hearing, the Claimant applied to amend to add a new claim (victimisation), which post-dated the ET1. The Respondent objected solely on … Continue reading Science Warehouse Ltd v Mills: EAT 9 Oct 2015

A group of employees had brought proceedings which appeared (though there was some ambiguity) to be intended as claims for redundancy payments. More than three months after the effective date of termination they sought to amend to plead alternative claims for unfair dismissal. Held: In hearing appeals from the EAT the first question the court … Continue reading British Newspaper Printing Corporation v Kelly: CA 1989

The appeal involved a reformulation of arguments run and rejected by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in HMRC v Serra Garau [2017] ICR 1121. Since Garau was not decided per incuriam and is not manifestly wrong, it should be followed: only one mandatory EC process is enacted by the EC provisions in section 18A Employment Tribunals … Continue reading Romero v Nottingham City Council: EAT 26 Apr 2018

In March 1988 the employers, the bus company, York City and District Travel Limited negotiated an agreement with the trade union varying their employees contracts of employment so as to provide that the employers were entitled to deduct any cash shortages from the wages of staff handling cash. On the 10th June 1988 minutes of … Continue reading York City and District Travel Ltd v Smith: EAT 1990

EAT Unfair Dismissal : Dismissal : Ambiguous Resignation – PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Application/claim – Amendment – Appellate jurisdiction/reasons/Burns-Barke – Unfair dismissal – dismissal – fixed-term employee – Practice and procedure – claim – application to amend – whether raised below – appellate jurisdiction – The Claimant, not legally trained and acting in person (assisted … Continue reading Ministry of Defence v Dixon: EAT 4 Oct 2017

Jurisdictional Points – Early conciliation provisions The Employment Judge erred in law in: (1) Examining the process prior to the grant of an early conciliation certificate in order to assess whether the Claimant was barred from instituting proceedings by section 18A(8) of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996. (2) Holding that it was a mandatory requirement … Continue reading De Mota v ADR Network and Another: EAT 13 Sep 2017

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Application/claim PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Preliminary issues PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Time for appealing The Employment Judge had erred in law when considering whether an error as to the correct name of the Respondent in an early conciliation certificate was a ‘minor error’ and whether it was not in the interests … Continue reading Chard v Trowbridge Office Cleaning Services Ltd: EAT 4 Jul 2017

EAT Practice and Procedure : Application/Claim – Preliminary issues The early conciliation certificate provisions introduced from 6 April 2014 do not allow for more than one certificate of early conciliation per ‘matter’ to be issued by ACAS. If more than one such certificate is issued, a second or subsequent certificate is outside the statutory scheme … Continue reading HM Revenue and Customs v Garau: EAT 24 Mar 2017

EAT Jurisdictional Points : 2002 Act and Pre-Action Requirements – The Claimant complied with the early conciliation requirements of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 section 18A. The Employment Tribunals (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2014 apply. The Claimant had given ACAS the wrong name for his employer but the current address. When … Continue reading TIC International Ltd v Ali: EAT 22 Mar 2016

Satisfaction of Early Conciliation requirements EAT Practice and Procedure: Preliminary Issues – This appeal raises a question of procedure in relation to the early conciliation provisions introduced by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013, namely whether an early conciliation certificate obtained by a ‘prospective claimant’ can cover future events. The Employment Judge held that … Continue reading Compass Group UK and Ireland Ltd v Morgan: EAT 26 Jul 2016