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Cite as: [1998] UKEAT 305_98_2603

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BAILII case number: [1998] UKEAT 305_98_2603
Appeal No. EAT/305/98

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS
             At the Tribunal
             On 26 March 1998

Before

HIS HONOUR JUDGE PETER CLARK

MR P DAWSON OBE

MRS J M MATTHIAS



LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN APPELLANT

MS F AKERS RESPONDENT


Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING - EX PARTE

© Copyright 1998


    APPEARANCES

     

    For the Appellants MISS ADRIENNE MORGAN
    (of Counsel)
    Instructed by:
    The Borough Solicitor
    London Borough of Camden
    Town Hall
    Judd Street
    London
    WC1H 9LP
       


     

    JUDGE PETER CLARK: This is an appeal by the employer, the London Borough of Camden ["Camden"] against a decision of the London (North) Industrial Tribunal (Chairman: Mr G Flint) following a three day hearing in October 1997, that the employee, Ms Akers, was unfairly dismissed. Extended reasons for that decision are dated 15th December 1997.

    The respondent employee was dismissed on 28th June 1996, having been declared permanently unfit for duty in her substantive post of caretaker from and since 11th November 1994.

    The basis of the Industrial Tribunal's findings of unfair dismissal appears to be that the employer did not take sufficient steps to find her alternative employment.

    Although that is broadly a question of fact for the Industrial Tribunal we are satisfied that this appeal raises arguable points of law which ought to go forward to a full hearing. It is said that the tribunal made material findings of fact unsupported by or contrary to the detailed evidence which was before it; that the tribunal imposed too high a burden on the employer to seek alternative employment for her, and that on the detailed evidence adduced by Camden as to the inordinate lengths to which they went in an attempt to re-deploy Ms Akers the decision was perverse, in the sense that it was an impermissible option.

    We further take the view, on Camden's application, that this is unusually a case in which the whole of the Chairman's Notes of Evidence are necessary for the purpose of resolving the points made in the appeal. Accordingly we shall give a direction for full Chairman's Notes of Evidence to be obtained.

    The case will be listed for hearing for four hours; Category C; skeleton arguments to be exchanged not less than 14 days before the date fixed for the full appeal hearing. Copies of those skeleton arguments to be lodged at the same time with this tribunal.


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