Tsangacos v Amalgamated Chemicals Ltd and another [1997] IRLR 4 EAT

Industrial tribunals: Tribunal chair may sit alone for jurisdictional issues

Date:

1 February 1997

An industrial tribunal chair sitting alone without lay members was entitled to hear and determine a preliminary issue as to whether the transferee of a company in liquidation could be joined as second respondent to a former employee's dismissal and discrimination proceedings, the EAT holds in Tsangacos v Amalgamated Chemicals Ltd and another.