Appeal No. EAT/1107/01

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 28 February 2002

Before
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE HOLLAND
MR J R CROSBY
MS B SWITZER

MR JACK BROWN	APPELLANT

FIRTH RIXSON SPECIAL STEEL LTD	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

PRELIMINARY HEARING

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	MISS RACHEL CRASNOW
(of Counsel)
Instructed By:
Messrs Browne Jacobson
Solicitors
44 Castle Gate
Nottingham
NG1 7BJ	

MR JUSTICE HOLLAND:

1.	This matter comes before us today by way of a preliminary hearing.  At issue is a decision of an Employment Tribunal held at Sheffield on 22 May 2001, the decision and extended reasons being sent to the parties on 3 August 2001.  For the purposes of today’s hearing we have had the benefit of a skeleton argument prepared by Miss Crasnow on behalf of the appellant, who was the applicant before the Tribunal.  In our present judgment, the three points carefully set out by Miss Crasnow in paragraph 1 of her skeleton argument are all arguable and the matter should go forward so that they can be ventilated at an inter-parties hearing.  For that purpose it is necessary for the Notice of Appeal to be amended so they can accommodate the third of the three points taken by Miss Crasnow.  We give leave for that.  We direct that the amended Notice of Appeal be served within the next 14 days.  We further direct that there be an exchange of skeleton arguments for the purposes of the inter-parties hearing so that the exchange is completed at least 14 days before the hearing itself.  So far as the length of the hearing is concerned, half a day is suggested and we agree.