Miss L Scott v Embrace Legal Services Limited (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) — 2024

Miss L Scott’s case against Embrace Legal Services Limited (in creditors’ voluntary liquidation) was heard at Liverpool on 2 October 2024 before Employment Judge Buzzard. The respondent did not appear and no defence was filed. The written record sent to the parties on 4 October 2024 records that the judgment was given orally at the hearing and that no written reasons would be provided unless requested.

The tribunal held that the claimant’s claim for unpaid notice pay was well founded and succeeded. It ordered the respondent to pay £1,916, described as one month’s gross pay. The tribunal also found that, when the proceedings were begun, the respondent was in breach of its duty to provide the claimant with a written statement of employment particulars, and it made an award under section 38 Employment Act 2002 equal to four weeks’ gross pay in the sum of £1,764.40.

The claimant’s unfair dismissal, maternity discrimination, and unpaid holiday pay claims were each dismissed on withdrawal by the claimant. The judgment therefore records two monetary awards in the claimant’s favour, totalling £3,680.40, and no further substantive findings on the withdrawn claims.