Appeal No. EAT/740/01

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 11 July 2002

Before
HIS HONOUR JUDGE D M LEVY QC
MR B V FITZGERALD MBE

MR B GIBBS

MISS M A OPARE-ADDO	APPELLANT

WANDSWORTH BOROUGH COUNCIL	RESPONDENT

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	MR S GILL
(of Counsel)
Instructed by:
Messrs Phoenix Nova
Solicitors
Ranan House
456 Kingsland Road
London E8 4AA	
For the Respondent	MR R TATA
(Solicitor)
Messrs DMH
Solicitors
40 High Street
Crawley
West Sussex RH10 1BW	

JUDGE D M LEVY QC

1	This was listed as a hearing of an appeal by Miss Opare-Addo (“the Appellant”) from a Decision of an Employment Tribunal promulgated on 9 May 2001.  By that Decision, the Tribunal had dismissed a claim by her for discrimination in job evaluation and unfair dismissal.  The Appellant has sought an adjournment of the hearing.

2	The application for an adjournment was not opposed by the Wandsworth Borough Council, the Respondent, if the appropriate provisions could be made for its costs.  The parties have reached a formula satisfactory, as we understand it, to both parties as to this.  

3	The reason for seeking the adjournment apparently is that insufficient preparation has been done by the Appellant’s solicitors, newly instructed and with staffing difficulties, in preparing the case for appeal. 

4	Rather than have an ill-prepared case presented to us today, we thought it appropriate to give leave, on the terms which the advocates appearing before us today have agreed including directions for the further hearing.  We will order that the hearing be adjourned to a further date when those directions have been carried out.  

5	I will ask the advocates here to prepare a minute of the agreed directions, both as to costs and to the notes of evidence etc required, which they orally presented to us.