Closing submissions should last 30 minutes for each day the hearing has lasted.
In Secretary of State for Health & ors v Rance & ors [2007] IRLR 665, HHJ McMullen reviews the authorities on when the EAT will be prepared to entertain a new point of law or permit a concession to be withdrawn, and sets out at paragraph 50 of his judgment the principles that he draws from them, as well as finding 3 new relevant factors in Rance itself.
In Balmain v Atlas Cleaning Ltd the employer said that it had dismissed the claimants because the manager of the shop where they worked as cleaners had required them to be removed from that work. The claimants sought a witness order to compel the manager to appear as a witness at the hearing of the unfair dismissal claim, but the tribunal refused. The EAT allowed the claimants’ appeal, saying the witness was plainly one who had potentially relevant evidence to give.
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A common error when dealing with expert reports is to ask questions that are too general. This normally occurs in two ways. Firstly, instead of…
The Employment Tribunal Service has published its 2006-07 statistics, which make interesting reading. etsas06-07.pdf