Mr P Hopkins v Jungle Rumble — 2024

At a public preliminary hearing on 4 December 2024, Employment Judge M Butler considered whether Mr P Hopkins could pursue an unfair dismissal complaint against Jungle Rumble and whether his disability discrimination allegation should be struck out. The hearing was held by CVP in Manchester, and the judgment was sent to the parties on 9 December 2024.

The tribunal dismissed the unfair dismissal complaint. It found that the claimant did not satisfy the two-year continuous service requirement for an ordinary unfair dismissal claim, did not bring a complaint based on an automatic unfair dismissal reason, and had not provided a satisfactory explanation for how the claim could proceed despite those points. On that basis, the tribunal held that the unfair dismissal complaint had no reasonable prospects of success and dismissed it under Rule 37 of the Employment Tribunal Rules of Procedure 2013.

The claimant's disability discrimination allegation, identified more precisely as discrimination arising from disability, was not struck out at the preliminary hearing. The tribunal held that it had not been shown to have no reasonable prospects of success, so that claim was allowed to proceed to a final hearing. No remedy was assessed in this judgment.