Appeal No. EAT/1402/01

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 12 April 2002

Before
MR RECORDER LANGSTAFF QC
MR J C SHRIGLEY
MR H SINGH

MISS B CAMPBELL	APPELLANT

1)  MR V ONUEGBU  
2)  L REITH  
3)  TOTTENHAM LEGAL ADVICE CENTRE	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	MISS A MORGAN
(of Counsel)	

RECORDER LANGSTAFF:
1.	In this appeal by Ms Campbell arising out of a decision by the Employment Tribunal sitting at London (Central) whose reasons were promulgated on 28 September 2001, we consider that arguable points of law arise on the admirably short grounds produced at paragraphs 6(1) and (2) of the notice of appeal.  We consider that the full inter partes appeal should be restricted to a consideration of those grounds.  

2.	So far as directions are concerned, first we would invite the Appellant to ensure that the letter which is presently appended to the skeleton argument and bears the date 25 April 2000 is put in the bundle for the full hearing tog
ether with the reply apparently dated 26 April.  The Respondent is invited to agree that that letter is the letter referred to at page 18 of the Tribunal decision, paragraph 3.10 (xl), page 20 of the bundle as having been written on 26 April.  If he is disposed to agree that this is a simple misdating by the Tribunal then that should be made plain by him, if he disputes it then the matter may need to come back to me or to a Judge at this Tribunal for further directions as to whether any further evidential step may be needed.

3.	We consider that the Chairman’s notes of evidence will be required in respect of the evidence of Ms Reeth, Ms Campbell and the Respondent in so far as they relate to his receipt of and if different the time of his reading of a note and application form relating to the application for the post of Immigration Supervisor.  The case will we think take half a day to argue, it is Category C.  Skeleton arguments from both sides please, no less than 14 days prior to the hearing together with copies of any case on which it is intended to rely.  We should add for completeness that we have invited Ms Morgan, who appears today for Ms Campbell, to deal in her skeleton with the possibility that the Tribunal may have regarded it as less favourable treatment that Ms Campbell took an approach towards establishing the requirements for supervisors in the immigration field which she did not take in respect of others of a different race or colour.  No further direction is required.