Time Limits

by Emma

The Court of Appeal, on a permission application, has upheld an EAT decision that a complaint of unfair dismissal presented 88 seconds late was out of time and so there was no jurisdiction to hear the claim.

See here for the judgment which recognises that the legislation imposes a harsh regime but states that “so do most time bars, which exist for the very good policy reason, that parties should know where they stand within a limited time of any dispute arising”.