LIST OF CASES / Facey v Midas Retail Security and Whitgift EAT 2001

[2001] ICR 287, EAT (also reported at [2000] IRLR 812)

NOTES

Facey v Midas Retail Security Ltd and BZW Property Investment Management Ltd (t/a Whitgift Centre Management) [2001] ICR 287, EAT, (2000 May 8 and 9, Lindsay J., Mrs. D.M. Palmer and Mr. G.H. Wright)

The full text judgment in this case is available free of charge on the BAILII website

Representation:

Mr S Kuttapan, representative, on behalf of Mr Facey

Mr John Bowers QC and Mr Dale Martin instructed by Messrs Fairbairn Morris, Grant House, 56-60 St Johns Street, London EC1M 4DT for Midas Retail Security Ltd

Mr B. Carr on behalf of the Members of the Employment Tribunal (London South)

Mr J Eadie, amicus Curiae.

Authority for the proposition that:-

where there is an appeal to the EAT on grounds that the Chairman of an employment tribunal (now employment judge) was biased, the EAT may invite but cannot require the Chairman or other Members of the Employment Tribunal to provide sworn written evidence as to what took place at the original tribunal hearing.

See Procedure of Employment Tribunals/a general introductory note and/or Employment tribunals/bias for relevant general notes.

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prepared Mar2001.