EAT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
Appellate jurisdiction / reasons / Burns-Barke
Case Management
The Employment Judge sitting alone at a pre-hearing review was correct in excluding evidence obtained by a covert recording of a discussion by the panel at a capability hearing under Regulations 13 of the Police Regulations 2003 when neither the Appellant nor his representative were present having withdrawn so that the discussion could take place. The decision was within the Judge’s discretion. In any event the decision accorded with the EAT judgment in Chairman and Governors of Amwell View School v Dogherty [2007] IRLR 198.
Judges:
Birtles J
Citations:
[2010] UKEAT 0346 – 09 – 0903
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Citing:
Cited – Amwell View School v Dogherty EAT 15-Sep-2006
amwell_dogherty
The claimant had secretly recorded the disciplinary hearings and also the deliberations of the disciplinary panel after their retirement. The tribunal had at a case management hearing admitted the recordings as evidence, and the defendant appealed, . .
Cited by:
Cited – Punjab National Bank (International) Ltd and Others v Gosain EAT 7-Jan-2014
EAT PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE – Preliminary issues – Whether court recordings of relevant meetings prior to Claimant’s alleged dismissal were to be admissible in evidence at trial insofar as they involved private . .
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Employment
Updated: 14 August 2022; Ref: scu.402561