If you want to appeal an employment tribunal’s decision to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, you need to identify one or more errors of law in…
The President of the EAT has now put out a Practice Statement dealing in a bit more detail with the points made in News From…
As previously noted it is vital that appeals to the EAT are lodged on time and properly constituted (legal jargon for having all the necessary…
If an appeal is made to the EAT, they will notify the other side. This, however, is likely to take a little time, because the…
Sometimes, after the tribunal hearing, you learn of something that, if you’d know about it at the time, you would have wanted to present to…
The EAT has concluded that the strict time-limits on starting an appeal apply equally to cross-appeals. This provides an excellent opportunity to reiterate that the…
The Court of Appeal has issued a sharp reminder of the limits of the Burns / Barke procedure. The Burns / Barke processes (named from…
The Court of Appeal has commented on the proper use of skeleton arguments in Tombstone Ltd v Raja & Heals. Although the case had nothing…
This is case about a notice to appeal that was rejected on the sift. The appellant then applied for an oral hearing, where the appeal was again rejected.
The facts and issues in this case are of limited general interest, but the judgment is significant because it sets out how the EAT Judges see the application to appeal process.
It is a good general rule (probably in life, but certainly in litigation) to make your best points and then stop. It will be very rare indeed that there are more than half a dozen or so really good points in any case.