Letter Of Complaint To Employment Appeal Tribunal
4
October 2004
Customer Services Officer
Employment
Appeals Tribunal
Audit
House
58
Victoria Embankment
London
EC4Y
ODS
Dear Sir/Madam,
Case
Number. Eat/0293/04/maa
I am writing to you to complain that I have not yet
received the written judgement resulting from the above case, even though it was
heard more than two months ago on the 29th July 2004.
When I telephoned your office on Friday I was told that the reason for
the delay was because when the judgement was received from the Honourable Mr
Justice Mitting for typing, that it was in a format that could not be made sense
of by the typists and that it therefore had to be referred back to Mr Justice
Mitting for revision. Your Charter
Standard Statement For Court Users states that users of the EAT Service can
expect fair and equal treatment, yet cases that have been heard almost two
months after mine have been made public on your website, while I still have to
wait. As a result of the delay, my legal advisors have had to make
an appeal application to the Court of Appeal (at their insistence) without the
benefit of them having seen the written judgement from the EAT.
I do not believe that this is reasonable or fair, particularly given that
the time limit in which appeal applications to the Court of Appeal are supposed
to be submitted is fourteen days from the issuing of the EAT written judgment.
I do not believe that the passage of more than two
months for the issuing of a written judgement can be considered to be reasonable
and I should be grateful if you could investigate this matter for me and supply
me with written reasons as to why there is a continuing wait.
If you consider that this is a judicial rather than an administrative
matter then I should be grateful if you could pass on my complaint to the
President of the EAT for his attention.
Thank you for your assistance in dealing with this
issue.
Yours faithfully
Ian Perkin CPFA FRSA