United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	THE APPELLANT IN PERSON


 


MR COMMISSIONER HOWELL QC: Mr White, we are satisfied that there are grounds for allowing this appeal to go forward and directing a full oral hearing on the issue of whether the tribunal which heard your case erred in the inferences they drew about the period of notice in your contract, particularly in the context of the nature and the intended period of your employment and the purpose for which you were taken on to do the work.

1. Because matters of inference from what was said and done may be important in evaluating whether the tribunal did or did not go wrong in law in the way they concluded the case, we direct that the Chairman's Notes of Evidence of what probably was not a very long hearing should be produced and added to the appeal file so that it can be looked at for the purposes of the full hearing.
2. Otherwise we dismiss the appeal in so far as your Notice of Appeal is based on the mere fact of the tribunal having preferred the respondent's evidence to that of the appellants, where the two sets of evidence conflicted on factual issues.
3. We direct that this appeal (on the remaining issue we have identified above) should be set down for hearing in Category C with a time estimate of two hours. We give the usual direction that skeleton arguments are to be exchanged between the parties and lodged with the Appeal Tribunal not later than 14 days before the date fixed for the full hearing of the appeal.