Tribunals: no duty to consider claims that claimant should have brought

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• Steptoe & Johnson LLP

The EAT held in Hyde-Walsh v Ashby and others (2007) that Tribunals are not under the duty to consider claims that claimants in person ought to have brought but did not bring and which may be fairly evident to the Tribunal from the facts before it. 

In this case the claimant argued that the Tribunal should have found that she had a claim for detriment under the whistleblowing provisions after it had dismissed her claim for unfair dismissal on the grounds that she was not an employee bu... (177 more words)

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