This post continues an account and critique of the EAT Judgment

“The Tribunal’s Decision on the Application for Reconsideration

21.              The Claimant applied for a review.  The ET refused that application because there was no reasonable prospect of the decision being varied or revoked.  The application had been based on a “new finding of fact” in the decision of a different ET in a different case.  The ET held that the new evidence would not probably have had an important influence on the outcome.  That is not challenged on this appeal.”

Reading the above one may ask: what was the “new finding of fact”? And how come the ET [Employment Tribunal] held that the new evidence would not probably have had an important influence on the outcome? I pause to consider this issue. It relates to the failure of QMUL to enact its redeployment procedure as required by employment law in a redundancy situation. (more…)