Appeal No. EAT/148/92

	EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
	58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

		At the Tribunal
		On 19th March 1993

	Before

	THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE WOOD MC (P)

	MR J P M BELL CBE

	MRS P TURNER OBE

OXFORD POLYTECHNIC	APPELLANTS

MR A HALPIN	RESPONDENT

	Transcript of Proceedings

	JUDGMENT

	MEETING FOR DIRECTIONS

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellants	NO APPEARANCE BY OR 	REPRESENTATION ON 	BEHALF OF THE 	APPELLANTS

For the Respondent	THE RESPONDENT IN 	PERSON

	MR JUSTICE WOOD (PRESIDENT):  Mr Andrew Halpin brought proceedings before an Industrial Tribunal against the Oxford Polytechnic.  He also issued proceedings in the High Court in defamation against the Polytechnic and one other. 

	 The matter came before this Court in May 1992.  We ordered a stay of the proceedings before the Industrial Tribunal pending the solution of the High Court action.  In order to save time we also ordered discovery in the Industrial Tribunal proceedings.

	Mr Halpin now applies for further orders.  In the first place he asks for an order that the documents obtained in Discovery in the Industrial Tribunal proceedings should be capable of being used in the High Court proceedings.  That is entirely a matter for the High Court and we shall certainly make no order on that application.

	Secondly, he asks for us to make some order giving him release from any implied undertaking that the documents disclosed in the Industrial Tribunal proceedings should not be used for collateral or ulterior purpose.  That again is something about which we shall not make any order, it is entirely a matter for the High Court proceedings and can well be dealt with there.

	Thirdly, he seeks an order for Further Discovery by affidavit in the Industrial proceedings.  As we have already said those proceedings are stayed pending the outcome of the High Court proceedings and it will be wholly inappropriate at this juncture, having ordered a stay, to make any further order for discovery in those proceedings.  So that third application is also refused.