United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	MR C QUINN (of Counsel) Instructed by: Anunay Jha Principal Litigation Officer Commission for Racial Equality Elliot House 10-12 Arlington Street London SW1 5EH


 


JUDGE HAROLD WILSON: This is the preliminary hearing for the proposed appeal by the original applicant, Dr Hussein, against the decision of the Employment Tribunal that it had no jurisdiction to consider the complaints against the first and second respondents.

1. The appellant is a medical doctor who had wished to be considered by the Special Training Authority in this country (the Special Training Authority of the Royal Medical Colleges) so that he could qualify himself for a consultancy position in the National Health Service. He had applied in 1997 and there had been considerable correspondence concerning his application. Eventually he was informed that his postgraduate qualification MRCP (I) was not acceptable. It is however acceptable for Irish doctors and therefore the appellant complained of direct and indirect racial discrimination when he applied to be placed on the Specialist Register.
2. The case involves aspects of statutory and regulatory legislation and the possibility of involvement with and conflict with certain legislation of the European Community. We therefore consider that it should proceed to a full argument. We categorise it Category A and place a time estimate of three hours upon it. We direct that skeleton arguments should be exchanged not less than 28 days before the date fixed for the final hearing. We do not have the benefit of the correspondence to which we have been referred, so a further direction is that an agreed bundle of correspondence should be prepared and served on the tribunal not less than 28 days before the date of final hearing.