Ms Charlotte Gotts, Mr Evren Uygun, Karar Ali, Mr Saavan Padhiar, Mr Hussain Abass, Imtanaan Abass, Mr James Hart, Oba Waiyaki, Mr Hok Yin Stephen Chiu v University of Warwick — 2023

The judgment concerned unfair dismissal complaints brought by Ms Charlotte Gotts, Mr Evren Uygun, Karar Ali, Mr Saavan Padhiar, Mr Hussain Abass, Imtanaan Abass, Mr James Hart, Oba Waiyaki and Mr Hok Yin Stephen Chiu against the University of Warwick. The tribunal recorded that section 108 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 requires a claimant to have not less than two years' service to make an unfair dismissal complaint.

The tribunal found that the claimants had been employed by the respondent for less than two years and therefore were not entitled to bring unfair dismissal complaints. It also recorded that the claimants had failed to give an acceptable reason, despite being given the opportunity to do so, why those complaints should not be struck out. The unfair dismissal complaints were struck out; the judgment stated that the other complaints brought by the claimants were not affected. No remedy was awarded in this judgment.