Appeal No.	 EAT/11/99

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 8 March 1999

Before
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE HOLLAND
MRS R CHAPMAN
MR P R A JACQUES CBE

ADI (UK) LTD	APPELLANTS

MR J WILLER & OTHERS	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellants	MR N ROBERTSON
(Solicitor)
Messrs Rowe & Maw
Solicitors
20 Black Friars Lane
London EC4V 6HD	

	MR JUSTICE HOLLAND:     In this matter an appeal from an Employment Tribunal held at Shrewsbury on 14 August and 22 September 1998 comes before us.  That Tribunal found that there was no relevant transfer of an undertaking from ADI (UK) Limited to Firm Security Group Limited for the purposes of Regulation 3 Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 1981.

	Today our concern is whether this matter should go forward for an inter partes hearing or whether it can be disposed of today by way of a judgment.  It is manifest, having regard to the nature of the case and the nature of the issues, that no decision can properly be given today.  It necessarily follows that the matter has to go forward for an inter partes hearing and we so direct.  For that hearing to be effective two steps need to be taken.

	First, we direct that within 28 days of the notification of the hearing date there be an exchange of skeleton arguments.

	We direct further that a bundle of documents be prepared and agreed for use by this Tribunal at the hearing.  The listing category will be ‘A’; the length of hearing we estimate at half a day.