United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

For the Appellant	NO APPEARANCE OR REPRESENTATION BY OR ON BEHALF OF THE APPELLANT


 


MR JUSTICE MAURICE KAY:

1. This case has been listed for preliminary hearing today. However, this morning before the Tribunal sat the Administration received a telephone call from Mr Sen, Mrs Sirdaw's representative, explaining his personal difficulties and as to how they had arisen overnight and how they made it impossible for him to attend this morning.
2. Whilst we are sympathetic to his difficulties, whether he could in fact have attended is something on which we express no concluded view. However, he has not done so because of the difficulties which we accept as being real. The arrangement he had had with Mrs Sirdaw was that he was going to attend and she was not. We assume that she is where she ought to be, namely teaching in a classroom. We are told that she knows nothing of Mr Sen's overnight personal difficulties. Mr Sen has invited us to adjourn this matter. We agree that that is the just way of disposing of it today.
3. In those circumstances we shall say no more about Mrs Sirdaw's proposed grounds of appeal and simply direct that the matter be relisted as soon as possible.