At the Tribunal | |
Before
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE LINDSAY (PRESIDENT)
(AS IN CHAMBERS)
APPELLANT | |
RESPONDENT |
Transcript of Proceedings
JUDGMENT
APPEAL FROM REGISTRAR’S ORDER
For the Appellant | MR W A HUGHES In person |
For the Respondent | MS J TINDALL Solicitor Messrs Dibb Lupton Also Solicitors 101 Barbirolli Square Manchester M2 3DL |
MR JUSTICE LINDSAY (PRESIDENT)
"In the opinion of the Tribunal the applicant has, in bringing and conducting these proceedings, acted vexatiously and unreasonably . We order the applicant to pay to the respondent the respondents costs incurred after 19 March 1999 as taxed on County Court Scale 2."
And the decision records that the applicant did not attend. Then it gives extended reasons for the conclusion to which the Tribunal had come. In the ordinary way, the decision is endorsed with the date on which it was sent out to the parties, 12 October 1999.
"AND UPON due consideration of the Judgment given in UNITED ARAB EMIRATES AND (1) MR ABDELGHAFAR (2) DR A K ABBAS
IT IS CONSIDERED that there has been shown no exceptional reason why an appeal could not have been presented within the time limit laid down in paragraph 3(2) of the Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993
AND IT IS ORDERED that the application for an extension of time in which to present the Notice of Appeal is refused"
"It was during the period, Spring 1998 up to and including 1999 that my health deteriorated. Along with my wife's health. She was recovering from the side effects of Chemotherapy after her second Cancer surgery. Leaving me in no fit state to attend to my appeals."
[It is from the HOPE Medical Centre at Hawarden Road, Hope, near Wrexham. It says:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
And it is signed by Dr Deas, DBChB, DRCOG, MRCGP. It says:
"This Patient was treated for severe chronic Gastritis during 1999 which first presented in November 1998. The diagnosis was proven on Endoscopy.
He also suffers from an unstable Blood Pressure. This was first picked up in February of this year and is currently under regular surveillance. No treatment has been required yet."