G P Haden & Associates v Stock

MR JUSTICE MUMMERY (PRESIDENT): This is an appeal against the decision of the Industrial Tribunal held at Cardiff on the 7th December 1992. For reasons notified to the parties on 11th January 1993 the Tribunal unanimously decided that the Respondent's request for a review of an earlier decision, promulgated on the 28th July 1992, should be refused.

The earlier decision was given following a hearing at Cardiff on the 29th June 1992. The Tribunal unanimously decided that the continuity of employment of the Applicant, Mr�David Paul Stock, was preserved from the 21 January 1972 until the 20th December 1991. The result was that he was held to be entitled to a redundancy payment of �3,304.48. The Order was made against his former employers G P Haden & Associates Ltd.

G P Haden & Associates, firm of engineers and surveyors practising in Swansea, were dissatisfied with both the original decision notified on the 28th July 1992 and with the decision for the review notified on the 11th January 1993. They, therefore, issued a Notice of Appeal, dated 17th February 1993.

The question for the decision of the Tribunal was concerned with whether there had been two or more breaks in the continuity of employment of Mr�Stock.

"1. Only selected information brought to the original hearing and not previously made available to the parties was allowed in evidence.