United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	Mr Cavamagh (of Counsel)


 


JUDGE JOHN BYRT QC: This is a preliminary hearing in an appeal against a decision promulgated on 21 April 1998 of an Employment Tribunal Chairman sitting alone in Manchester whereby he rejected the employee's contention that the employers were in breach of contract in that they failed to provide her with an enhanced redundancy payment.

Mrs Pellowe does not attend. We are unaware of the reasons why she does not, but in the circumstances there are three options to follow. One is to strike out her case; two, to adjourn the matter or three, if we can see there is a point of law arising from our own perusal of the papers, allow this matter to go forward to a full hearing

On perusing the papers, we have ourselves identified a point of law. The Employment Tribunal has dealt with the matter by asking whether there is an expressed term that the employer should pay Mrs Pellowe an enhanced redundancy payment. They came to the conclusion that there was no such express term, but they did not consider the possibility that an implied term might have has arisen as a result of the usage and practice of the parties. We think this is an arguable point of law which can be put forward on her behalf and rather than strike her case out, we think it appropriate to let this matter go forward to a full hearing on that one point of law.

We think that this is a matter which should be classed as Category C and estimate that the time allowed for this argument should be 2 hours.