Ms Deborah Fakayo aka Ms Debra Fakayo Ms Sarah Fakayo v London Borough of Lambeth Council — 2022

At the hearing on 2 November 2022 before Employment Judge D Wright, sitting alone, neither claimant attended. The clerk spoke to Ms D Fakayo by telephone and was told that she had not received the notice of hearing and could not join because she did not have access to the internet. The clerk was unable to reach the respondent and received an out-of-office autoreply to an email.

The judgment records that Employment Judge Robinson had made an Unless Order on 21 September 2022. That order required the claimants, by 21 October 2022, to explain their non-attendance at the earlier tribunal hearing, explain their non-compliance with tribunal letters and orders of 20 May, 7 June and 13 June 2022, provide written medical evidence if health was relied on, explain how they satisfied the two-year continuity of service requirement for unfair dismissal, and give details of what their claims were for, how much they were claiming and how those amounts had been calculated.

The Claimants did not comply with that order. The judgment therefore records that the claims under case numbers 2301410/2022, 2301492/2022 and 2301493/2022 stood dismissed without further order. The tribunal did not determine the substantive merits of the claims and made no monetary award.