Appeal No.	EAT/1169/99

EMPLOYMENT APPEAL TRIBUNAL
58 VICTORIA EMBANKMENT, LONDON EC4Y 0DS

	At the Tribunal
	On 29 November 2000

Before
HIS HONOUR JUDGE H WILSON
MISS C HOLROYD
MR A D TUFFIN CBE

MR N J NEWTON	APPELLANT

UNITED BRISTOL HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST	RESPONDENTS

Transcript of Proceedings

JUDGMENT

PRELIMINARY HEARING – EX PARTE

Revised

	APPEARANCES

For the Appellant	THE APPELLANT NEITHER PRESENT NOR REPRESENTED	

	JUDGE WILSON:	This was the date listed for the preliminary hearing of the appellant’s numerous appeals in the matters which he had before the Employment Tribunal. The Employment Appeal Tribunal had received a letter seeking an adjournment dated 15th November 2000 and the appellant had been informed that the submissions contained in that letter would be heard as a preliminary point today. The appellant has not appeared and the Employment Appeal Tribunal proceeds with the appeal on the basis of the documents before it.

1.	In his letter of the 15th November 2000, the proposed appellant said that he could not proceed on the matters at the tribunal unless the Employment Tribunal at Bristol had complied with the law and the order of the Employment Tribunal. Because that had not happened the proposed appellant said that today’s hearing would have to be postponed.

2.	We note that on 14th January 2000 the matter had come before the President, as in chambers, and he had delivered a lengthy judgment concerning the difficulties at that stage which faced the appellant. He said, in terms, that it behoved the appellant to think carefully about what the errors of law were which he wished to assert to be errors of law when he came to today’s hearing. As the President said, the appellant must first identify what he claimed to be errors of law.

3.	Amongst other documents before the tribunal today is a small bundle containing exchange of correspondence between the President of Employment Tribunals, the proposed appellant and the Employment Tribunal at Bristol. Amongst those documents is a decision of the Employment Tribunal in Bristol dealing with three cases, two of which have the reference numbers of the cases before us today. The decision from Bristol states:

“The applications are dismissed on withdrawal by the applicant.”

	Accordingly, on that basis, there are no decisions to be appealed and we dismiss the appeals before us.