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in considering whether or not to exercise its discretion to grant an extension of time for entering notice of appearance to a claim it would be wrong for an employment tribunal to refuse to take into account the merits of the case unless a reasonably satisfactory explanation for the delay had been given.
For main relevant notes see Time-limits/extension of time-limits .