Quintin Cleaning & Support Services v Uwudiale

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL 58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS At the Tribunal On 28 January 1997 Before

JUDGE C SMITH QC: This is an application by the employers, Quintin Cleaning & Support Services Ltd, for leave to proceed to a full hearing of an appeal against the decision of an Industrial Tribunal, held at Stratford on 7 June 1996, when the Industrial Tribunal, having decided that the employee, Mr T. Uwudiale, had been unfairly dismissed on 22 August 1995, ordered Quintin Cleaning & Support Services Ltd, the Respondent (the Appellants before us today), to pay a basic award and a compensatory award of �5,370.80p; the basic award was �463.00p.

We have reminded ourselves today that the Appellants need only show an arguable point of law arising from the Industrial Tribunal's decision to obtain leave.

Mr Mundon has appeared before us today and very politely and helpfully made that clear to us, that the only ground which he is now seeking to rely upon is ground 3 in the Notice of Appeal. We are quite sure that that was a wise decision on his part. So we, of course, will only consider ground 3 which we will come to in a moment.

Putting the matter briefly, on the facts as found by the Industrial Tribunal, Mr Uwudiale had been employed as a cleaning supervisor since September 1992, by Executive Cleaning Services Plc. He worked on the Espree Leisure Ltd contract.