Patrick Andrews (1) Kevin Binder (2) Paul Oakley (3) v R Bance & Company Limited — 2025

At a CVP hearing in Nottingham on 4 April 2025 before Employment Judge Clark sitting alone, the tribunal granted applications to amend the claims and refused the respondent's application to extend time for presenting a response to the original claims. The judge also reconsidered, of the tribunal's own motion under Part 12 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024, an earlier Rule 22 liability judgment dated 24 March 2025 and varied it accordingly.

The judgment states that the claims were presented in the Midlands East Employment Tribunal on 17 December 2024 and that the respondent had failed to present a valid response on time. On that basis, the Employment Judge decided that a determination could properly be made of part of the case under rule 22 of the Rules of Procedure.

The tribunal held that the claims in respect of deduction from wages succeeded. The judgment does not determine the amount payable at this stage and says that remedy will be determined at a future hearing, unless agreed or otherwise ordered. The decision is therefore a liability judgment only.