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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal >> Woods v. Lambeth Service Team Ltd [1999] UKEAT 1009_99_0912 (9 December 1999) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/1999/1009_99_0912.html Cite as: [1999] UKEAT 1009_99_0912, [1999] UKEAT 1009_99_912

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APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	MS R LOWES (Solicitor) Messrs Taylor Willcocks Essex House 12-13 Essex Street London WC2R 3AA


 


HIS HONOUR JUDGE D PUGSLEY

1. This is a case where we would be much helped by the submissions of Ms Lowes, in her skeleton argument. We have the advantage of a preliminary decision of Mr Justice Morison, sitting in Chambers because the original Notice of Appeal was out of time. The appeal arises out of a decision by the Industrial Tribunal to review its own decision. Initially it had found that Applicant was unfairly dismissed, it then reviewed its decision and found he was fairly dismissed. Mr Justice Morison in the interlocutory appeal at paragraph 6 of page 3 said this:

"It seems to me quite clear that the course which was adopted by this Employment Tribunal is not only unusual, but may well be legally defective, I therefore am faced with a Notice of Appeal, which was out of time in relation to what may well be described as a procedural blunder".

2. We formed our own view of this before we looked at the preliminary judgment. Our view is the same as Mr Justice Morison; that it may well be that the full Tribunal may come to the view that what was done on this case was an error of law. That is a course or matter for a full argument. We think this is a half day case. We do not see any reason to order the Chairman's notes. We consider that as it raises matters which may be of wider importance than its impact on the parties it justifies a Class B assessment.