Mr K Sangar v East Village Dental Ltd — 2021

The claimant applied on 4 February 2021 for reconsideration of the deposit orders made on 18 January 2021. The tribunal refused the application under Rules 70 and 72 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013, holding that there was no reasonable prospect of the original decision being varied or revoked and that reconsideration was not necessary in the interests of justice. It confirmed that the complaints had not been struck out, but that deposit orders had been made because the tribunal had considered the claims to have little reasonable prospect of success.

The claimant withdrew his age discrimination complaint, and the tribunal accepted that withdrawal and dismissed that complaint by way of withdrawal. As to the race and religion or belief discrimination complaints, and the complaint that he was automatically unfairly dismissed for making protected public interest disclosures, the tribunal said the reconsideration application identified no new reason to revisit its earlier view that those complaints had little reasonable prospect of success. The tribunal also noted that, if the case continued and the claimant complied with the deposit order, he would still have the opportunity to provide further evidence at a full hearing.