06 May 2009
Asif v Key People Ltd [2008] All ER (D) 86 (Jun)
Rule 18(5) of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure, entitling a chairman to give judgment, at a pre-hearing review, “on any preliminary issue of substance”, does not preclude a chairman from proceeding to determine the substantive issue in a case if he had the unequivocal consent of the parties to his taking that course and it was not unfair to do so.
