Source: All England Reporter
Publisher Citation: [2007] All ER (D) 07 (Jan)
Court: Employment Appeal Tribunal
Judge:

Burton J

Representation The employee appeared by his representative.
Judgment Dates: 15 December 2006

Catchwords

Employment appeal tribunal - Practice - Appeals - Time period for bringing appeal - Time running from promulgation of reasons - Tribunal subsequently correcting judgment by reissuing reasons - Whether time running from substitution of fresh judgment - Recommended course of action for tribunal when correcting judgment.

The Case

The positive deletion of the entirety of the tribunal's reasons and the substitution of an entirely fresh judgment, in the form of a correction pursuant to r37 of Sch1 to the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004, meant that there was a complete substitution of a fresh judgment and that the time limit for lodging a notice of appeal ran from the date of the promulgation of the new reasons, namely, the date of the certificate of correction substituting those reasons.

Practice Areas

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