United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellants	MR VERNON FLYNN (of Counsel) Instructed by: Ms C Bloodworth Messrs Charles Russell 8-10 Fetter Lane London EC4A 1RS
For the Respondent	CAROLINE UNDERHILL (of Counsel) Avon & BristoL Law Centre 2 Moon Street Stokes Croft Bristol, BS2 8QE


 


MR COMMISSIONER HOWELL QC

1. Despite the inconvenience of this application for adjournment not having come on an agreed basis before this Tribunal before 10 minutes ago, we are all of the view that the sensible and practicable course is to defer the full hearing of this appeal until after the Court of Appeal's judgment in Tansell. We therefore simply stand over the hearing of this appeal, to be restored for the first convenient date after the issue of the Court of Appeal's judgment in the Tansell case, MHC Consulting Services Ltd –v- Tansell [1999] ICR 1211. I suppose there is a possibility that one party or the other in the Tansell case would want to take the matter even further. We will not make any deferring directions to cover that possibility at the moment. If it is obvious that it is going to the House of Lords and it remains a major issue then you can make a further application (which I hope will be made in clear terms, as early as possible, and on an agreed basis) if a further postponement is sought.