Appeal No.	EAT/1418/98

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 26 January 1999

Before
HIS HONOUR JUDGE H WILSON
MR I EZEKIEL
MR R JACKSON

(1) MR R READER
(2) MR V J REMI
(3) MR O RAIF	APPELLANTS

THE MAYOR & BURGESSES OF THE
LONDON BOROUGH OF HACKNEY	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellants	MR M JOHNSTONE
(Representative)
The Employment Law Service
Wembley Law Chambers
Wembley
Middlesex HAO 4UA	

	JUDGE H WILSON:     This is an appeal by Mr Reader, Mr Remi and Mr Raif (the Appellants before us) against the decision of an Employment Tribunal, the Chairman sitting alone, at a hearing held at Stratford on 9 March and 3 July 1998 of which Extended Reasons were given on 1 October 1998.

	The decision of the Employment Tribunal was that:

(i)  the Respondent has not made unauthorised deductions from the Applicants’ wages in contravention of Part II of the Employment Rights Act 1996;

	We have considered all the arguments and, of course, read the skeleton argument.  We note that it is indicated that any possible ground under the European case of Coote v Granada has been abandoned.  Therefore, we give leave to proceed to a full hearing, solely on the question whether or not the last act complained of for the purposes of time limitation, was the receipt by the Appellant of the Respondent’s letter of 21 April, but otherwise we dismiss the application.

	We think that the matter will occupy the Tribunal for about an hour and we allot it Category C.