United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

BAILII case number: [1995] UKEAT 370_95_0606

Appeal No. EAT/370/95

EMPOLYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL

58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

At the Tribunal

On 6 June 1995

Before

THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MUMMERY (P)

MR J M MATTHIAS

MR S M SPRINGER MBE

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MRS M JONES          APPELLANT

WINSTANLEY & CO (KINGS NORTON) LTD          RESPONDENTS

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Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised


 


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APPEARANCES

For the Appellant NO ATTENDANCE BY           APPELLANT


 


MR JUSTICE MUMMERY (PRESIDENT): This is a Preliminary Hearing of an appeal against the decision of the Industrial Tribunal held at Birmingham on 21 and 22 February 1995. The Tribunal unanimously decided that the application brought by Mrs Jones against Winstanley & Co (Kings Norton) Ltd should be dismissed. Her complaint was one of dismissal because of pregnancy and sex discrimination. The Tribunal notified full reasons for their decision to dismiss the application on 23 March 1995. Mrs Jones appealed by a Notice of Appeal dated 4 April. The purpose of the Preliminary Hearing today is to decide whether the appeal raises an arguable point of law. Mrs Jones' representatives telephoned to say that they would not be attending and asked for the matters to be decided at the Preliminary Hearing on the basis of the written submission contained in the letter from the Worcester Welfare Rights Centre dated 4 April 1995.

We have considered the submission raised in the letter and have reached the view that there is a reasonably arguable point of law on this appeal. It is not appropriate to say any more about the merits of it in the absence of legal argument on either side. We therefore direct that this matter proceeds to a full hearing. We will also direct that the Skeleton Arguments be lodged with this Tribunal at least twenty-one days before the date fixed for the full hearing. They are to be exchanged between the parties. We would estimate the length of this hearing at half a day.