United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

BAILII case number: [1996] UKEAT 780_95_3101

Appeal No. EAT/780/95

EMPOLYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL

58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

At the Tribunal

On 31 January 1996

HIS HONOUR JUDGE C SMITH QC

MISS A MACKIE OBE

MR D J JENKINS MBE

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MISS T GODDARD          APPELLANT

1) SPECIALISED VEHICLE OPTIONS LTD

2) HEALTHMATIC LTD          RESPONDENTS

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Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised


 


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APPEARANCES

For the Appellant NO APPEARANCE BY OR ON BEHALF OF           APPELLANT


 


JUDGE SMITH QC: In this application for leave to proceed to a full hearing of the appeal of Miss Goddard, we have just been handed by the Associate a letter from the Applicant's solicitors, Messrs Vaughan Fullager in Swindon, renewing an application for adjournment which was made yesterday, in which the Registrar considered and no doubt because it was so late very properly refused an adjournment at that stage, especially as the matter was coming into the list before the Employment Appeal Tribunal the very next day. Now we have received this fax letter by way of a further application for an adjournment. We have had to look at that.

The grounds for the adjournment are that there has been an application for Legal Aid which has been turned down. We know not why. As a result the solicitors are asking for time to obtain positive instructions one way or the other from Miss Goddard, as to whether she wishes to pursue this appeal. It is a matter of discretion as to whether we should allow an appeal. We do not consider on the face of it that there are any merits in the substantive application. However, in the circumstances here, we consider that we should accede to a short adjournment in order that the solicitors can obtain instructions. For that reason the matter will have to be stood-out of today's list to be re-listed as soon as possible, subject to the convenience of the Listing Office.