Court of Appeal Hearing 14th January 2005
On the 14th January 2005 I made personal application to the Court of Appeal regarding the judgements that I had received at the Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeals Tribunal. Lord Justice Mummery and Lord Justice Neuberger heard my appeal and they stated that although what had happened to me was legally possible, in their experience they had never come across a case like mine where an employee had been summarily dismissed without there having been a finding of misconduct and certainly no experience of this happening where the employee had succeeded in proving that he had been unfairly dismissed by his employer. As a result their Lordships took the view that I had a reasonable prospect of winning the appeal and ordered that I should be granted leave to appeal against the order given by the Employment Appeal Tribunal and that the case should be heard by three Appeal Court Judges, one of whom should have Employment Appeal Tribunal Experience. Their Lordships also ruled that I could lodge an application to produce new evidence that arose during the Sissling Inquiry.
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