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You are here: BAILII >> Databases >> United Kingdom Employment Appeal Tribunal >> Amec Design & Management Ltd v Bamford [1993] UKEAT 198_93_1503 (15 March 1993) URL: http://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKEAT/1993/198_93_1503.html Cite as: [1993] UKEAT 198_93_1503 |
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I N T E R N A L
At the Tribunal
Before
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE WOOD MC (P)
MR J P M BELL CBE
MRS P TURNER OBE
Transcript of Proceedings
JUDGMENT
Revised
APPEARANCES
For the Appellants NO APPEARANCE OR
REPRESENTATION BY THE APPELLANT
MR JUSTICE WOOD (PRESIDENT): This is an appeal on documents only against the refusal by an Industrial Chairman to hear a preliminary assessment under the rules. This is essentially a matter for discretion in the learned Chairman. This is a hearing which was due in Manchester he took the view that it was not appropriate in this case to have a pre-hearing assessment and that it was best in the interests of time and fairness for the matter to be heard at a full hearing.
The issue between the parties was that the Applicant, Mr Bamford alleged unfair selection for redundancy by his employers AMEC Design & Management Limited. In his Originating Application he set out at some length the history of the matter and complained that he had been selected for redundancy prior to a Mr Carr who had been employed through an agency. The Respondents' reply to that was that it was perfectly clear that Mr Bamford had to be selected because he was unable to deal with a micro planner system. Those issues are perfectly well dealt with at a full hearing of the matter and the learned Chairman was perfectly entitled in the exercise of his discretion, having looked at the pleadings, to take that view.
We can find no error of law whatsoever in the exercise of that discretion and the appeal is dismissed.