United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal

APPEARANCES

 

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JUDGE D M LEVY QC

1. This is the preliminary hearing of an appeal by Colourflow Ltd from a hearing at an Employment Tribunal sitting in Reading on 21 September 2001.
2. The issue before the Tribunal was whether certain sums of money had or had not been paid to the Applicant below, Mr R V Smith ("the Applicant") the Tribunal found that certain sums were due to him in the sum of £975.16.
3. From that Decision a director of the company notified the Tribunal that the Company wished to appeal by letter dated 4 December 2001. A letter dated 13 May 2000 written on behalf of Mr David Duggins to the Tribunal states that Mr David Duggins and Simon Allport were appointed Joint Administrative Receivers of the Company on 26 February 2002 under fixed and floating charges and it was unlikely that there would be funds available for distribution to unsecured creditors, with no disrespect to the Tribunal, the administrators were not intended to take part in the proceedings.
4. We are satisfied that on the material set out in the Decision, the Tribunal was entitled to come to reach the decision that £975.16 was so due to the Applicant. There was not a breach of Article 6 of the Human Rights Act, as alleged by the Director of the Company in the Notice of Appeal. Contracts can be written or oral and on the facts as found by the Tribunal, the Appellant was entitled to money which he ought to have been paid.
5. In the circumstances, there is no arguable point for this appeal to go to a full hearing. Accordingly we dismiss it.