United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellants	MR A KORN (of Counsel) Messrs Dibb Lupton Broomhead Solicitors Albert Square Manchester M2 5PE
For the Respondents	MR G P BAXTER (of Counsel) Mr C Hay Northern Complainant Aid Fund Checkpoint 45 Westgate Bradford BD1 2TH


 


MR JUSTICE MORISON(PRESIDENT): I have listened very carefully to Mr Korn's submissions, but in respect of none of the items that he has listed this morning, has he persuaded me that the Notes the Evidence from the Chairman are required. That said, it is of course open to parties when they appear in front of an Employment Appeal Tribunal, to seek to put before them an agreed note of evidence, if such is available. That is, a note of evidence made by the parties representatives at the Industrial Tribunal. Sometimes an agreed note of evidence may be of assistance.

I am not saying that any note of any evidence in this case will be of assistance, but if it is to be dealt with at all, it seems to me, in the first instance, that the parties should seek to agree a note of the evidence insofar as it can be agreed, in relation to any matter that they think they are going to refer to the Employment Appeal Tribunal at the hearing. I want to make it quite plain that I am not indicating by saying this that there is leave given to adduce any notes of evidence in any form before the Employment Appeal Tribunal, merely that if you wish to prepare yourselves for the possibility that you want to put an agreed note in and the Tribunal shows interest in it, you will have something to put before them. I certainly am not prepared to order that the Chairman of the Tribunal should now go to the task of preparing his Notes of Evidence.