Appeal by respondent against order allowing extension of time for lodging of aopeal when the appeal was only ten minutes out of time.
Held: The delay had been caused by an unusual combination of circumstances including an unforseen internet outage: ‘ I do not therefore think that this is one of those cases, of which there are too many, where the parties deliberately let time pass without doing anything, or wake up only at the last moment to the approach of the time limit but, rather, one where they did their best to comply and were defeated late, but not very late in the day, by circumstances beyond their control. ‘
Langstaff P J
[2015] UKEAT 0896 – 14 – 3103
Bailii
England and Wales
Employment
Updated: 30 December 2021; Ref: scu.547130