Appeal No.	 EAT/147/98

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 30 March 1998

Before
HIS HONOUR JUDGE PETER CLARK
MR E HAMMOND OBE
MR J A SCOULLER

MR M J TAYLOR	APPELLANT

PIPEFIX LTD	RESPONDENT

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING
Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	MR A LYNCH
(of Counsel)
Messrs Battens
Solicitors
23 Market Street
Crewkerne
Somerset TA18 7JU	

	JUDGE PETER CLARK:  This is an appeal by the Applicant before the Southampton Industrial Tribunal sitting on 19 September 1997, which held that he was not an employee of the Respondent, Pipefix Ltd, within the meaning of s.230 of the Employment Rights Act 1996.

	Having considered the arguments advanced by Mr Lynch by reference to a draft amended notice of appeal and a written skeleton argument, we are satisfied that this matter ought to proceed to a full appeal hearing.  For that purpose we shall make the following directions:
	(1)	Leave to the Appellant to amend the notice of appeal in terms of the draft lodged;
(2)	The Appellant is to set out extracts from the evidence before the Industrial Tribunal on which he seeks to rely at the full appeal hearing in a letter to the Respondent with a view to agreement being reached that such evidence was given below.  In the event of failure to agree, both parties have liberty to apply to me for further directions in relation to Chairman’s notes of evidence;
(3)	The case will be listed for half-a-day, category C;
(4)	Exchange of skeleton arguments within 14 days and a similar time-limit is put on the letter referred to in (2) above;
(5)	Appellant’s legal aid taxation.