United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	NO APPEARANCE BY OR REPRESENTATION ON BEHALF OF THE APPELLANT


 


JUDGE PETER CLARK: This is an appeal by the Applicant, Ms Hirschl, against the decision of the London (North) Industrial Tribunal sitting on 12 August 1996.

The Tribunal dismissed all her claims. Against that decision she now appeals. At this preliminary hearing the Appellant does not appear and is not represented, but her Solicitor has put before us a skeleton argument dealing with the various grounds of appeal.

Having considered the grounds raised in the Notice of Appeal we are satisfied that each raises an arguable point of law to go to a full hearing with one exception, that is the appeal against the Tribunal's finding of unfair dismissal set out at paragraph 8 of the Notice of Appeal.

In summary, the Appellant was dismissed from her position as office administrator on the grounds that she had copied details from the Respondent's client base card index for an impermissible purpose.

The Tribunal deal with the question of unfair dismissal at paragraph 8 of their Extended Reasons in a way which cannot, in our judgment, be faulted. They have asked themselves the right questions and reached a permissible conclusion on the facts as found.

The grounds advanced in support of this part of the appeal at paragraph 8 of the Notice of Appeal amount to an attempt to attack the Tribunal's findings of fact and we are satisfied that no arguable point of law is raised.

Accordingly we shall strike out paragraph 8 of the Notice of Appeal, and permit the remaining grounds to proceed to a full appeal hearing.