Appeal No. EAT/1038/94

	EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
	58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

		At the Tribunal
		On 9 November 1994

	Before

	THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE PILL

	MRS M E SUNDERLAND JP

	MR G H WRIGHT MBE

MR C RHODES	APPELLANT

NEW POSSIBILITIES N H S TRUST	RESPONDENTS

	Transcript of Proceedings

	JUDGMENT

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	

	NO ATTENDANCE 
	BY EITHER PARTY

For the Respondents	

	MR JUSTICE PILL:   Mr C Rhodes has made an Application to the Industrial Tribunal.  The Respondents are the New Possibilities N.H.S. Trust.  The Application was made as long ago as June 1992.  He claims that he has been unfairly dismissed.  There have been a number of adjournments.  

	The matter comes before us on paper in these circumstances.  The case has been listed for hearing tomorrow; Mr Rhodes seeks an adjournment.  That is opposed by the Respondents.  The Industrial Tribunal are not prepared to grant an adjournment.  We have had faxed to us in the course of the afternoon the basic documents in the case, together with certain correspondence and notes of conversations which have occurred between Court staff and Mr Rhodes.

	Mr Rhodes has also put forward a number of reasons why the hearing should not proceed tomorrow.  We have considered those.  We have come to the conclusion that this Tribunal should not intervene and we propose to give no directions to the Industrial Tribunal as to tomorrow's hearing.  

	It is of course open to the Industrial Tribunal to consider any further Application made to it on the subject of an adjournment and to reach a decision upon that Application as it sees fit.