Appeal No.	 EAT/568/99

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 28 July 1999

Before
HIS HONOUR JUDGE D M LEVY QC
LORD DAVIES OF COITY CBE
MR P A L PARKER CBE

MR F ILES	APPELLANT

ROSS NEWTON RECRUITMENT	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	MR T LINDEN
(of Counsel)
Instructed By:
Pattinson & Brewer
30 Great James Street
London  WC1N 3HA	

	JUDGE LEVY:	Mr Linden appears before us this morning for the Appellant in this case.  He has produced an amended Notice of Appeal taking at its forefront an alleged misdirection in the decision of the Employment Tribunal by reference to the case in McMeechan v Secretary of State for Employment [1997] ICR 549 CA.  

1	He seeks to amend the Notice of Appeal so that that point should become the first point in the appeal with later modification to the Notice.

2	Subject to the right of the Respondent to object at the hearing to the amendment, we give leave for an amended Notice of Appeal to be served in that form and will allow the appeal to go forward.  We are persuaded that there is an arguable case, estimated length half a day, Category C.