Appeal No.	 EAT/853/97

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 27 October 1997

Before
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE MAURICE KAY
MISS A MACKIE OBE
MR N D WILLIS

MISS S CARLTON	APPELLANT

LA MANGA HOLIDAYS LTD	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING - EX PARTE

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	DR J CARLTON
(Father)	

	MR JUSTICE MAURICE KAY:   Dr Carlton the tribunal, after some hesitation, does not think it would be right to stop you in your tracks now. What we shall do and you can probably gauge from the way I am expressing myself, that it is a fairly marginal decision what we shall do is to say that the point that you have raised this morning is arguable, so that you can take it to a final hearing. 

	We make it clear that all you are being permitted and indeed, all you have asked us to permit you to take to the final hearing, is the claim in relation to matters arising before 24th July. It is quite clear that the advice that you had received downstairs which led you not to pursue the jurisdiction questions relating to the fact that your daughter was working in Spain after 24th July was correct, and you have been correct to accept it.

	You have permission to proceed, effectively, on the matters dealt with in paragraphs 15 and 16 in the decision - whether or not time should have been extended in relation to the pre-24th July items. That should not be a lengthy matter, we will estimate at 2 hours and it will go in listing category C, with the usual directions for skeleton arguments.