Mrs B Schaefer v UK Government RECONSIDERATION — 2019

On 19 March 2019, after a one-day preliminary hearing, Employment Judge Camp struck out the claimant's entire claim for no reasonable prospects of success. The written reasons were sent to the parties on 11 April 2019. This judgment was made without a hearing under rule 72(1) after the claimant's 18 April 2019 application, treated as a reconsideration application.

The judge refused reconsideration because the application did not engage with the core reason for the original strike-out, namely that the employment tribunal had no power to deal with the claim the claimant wanted to bring. The judge rejected the complaints about the timing of the respondent's skeleton argument, alleged bias in the wording of the decision, the judge's questioning at the preliminary hearing, alleged new evidence, and later County Court documents. The judge concluded that none of those points gave a reasonable prospect of the original decision being varied or revoked, and noted that any appeal was a matter for the Employment Appeal Tribunal. No remedy was awarded.