Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2003] All ER (D) 145 (Oct)
Court: Employment Appeal Tribunal
Judge:

Judge Levy QC, Mr B Beynon and Mr A Manners

Representation Michael Curtis (instructed by C Drage, Devizes) for the employee.
  Daniel Stilitz (instructed by Nabarro Nathanson) for the local authority.
Judgment Dates: 8 July 2003

Catchwords

Employment - Unfair dismissal - Complaint to employment tribunal - Decision of tribunal that employee unfairly dismissed - Correctness of decision.

The Case

In reaching its conclusion that the employee had been unfairly dismissed, the employment tribunal had made a finding which had not been argued before it, and it was possible that that finding affected its conclusion that the authority had acted unreasonably. Accordingly, the matter would be remitted to the tribunal to be re-argued.

Practice Areas

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