Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital NHS Foundation Trust v Poullis (Practice and Procedure): EAT 14 Jan 2022

The employment judge failed to identify a material change of circumstances that would allow his decision to ‘cancel’ the listing of a preliminary hearing to consider a deposit order application. The appeal was allowed. Discussion of whether it is correct to treat the question of whether there has been a material change of circumstances as ‘jurisdictional’, the care to be taken in listing preliminary hearings and the possibility of so doing on a provisional basis.

Judges:

His Honour Judge James Tayler

Citations:

[2022] EAT 9

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Employment

Updated: 24 March 2022; Ref: scu.671589