Miss Ganiat Lawal v Financial Conduct Authority and 1 other — 2022

The hearing was an open case management hearing to consider applications to strike out the claims for failure to comply with case management orders. The claimant did not attend and had requested a postponement, saying she had been in hospital since the first week of August 2022. The Tribunal had refused the postponement request unless medical evidence of hospitalisation was provided.

The Tribunal found that the claimant had failed to comply with two orders requiring further and better particulars. The earlier order had required further information after the claims were described as unspecific and difficult to understand. The order of 16 May 2022 set out detailed questions and a deadline of 16 July 2022, but the material provided by the claimant on 11 and 13 July 2022 did not follow the directions and consisted of generalised assertions and personal information that did not address the required points.

Employment Judge Housego struck out the claims for failure to comply with the 16 May 2022 order. The judgment recorded that the claimant could apply for reconsideration if she supplied medical evidence showing that ill health precluded compliance, including evidence of any hospital stay between 16 May 2022 and 31 August 2022. After the decision was announced, an email from the claimant's brother stated that she had been in St Pancras Hospital from 20 July 2022, but the judge did not change the decision and indicated that medical information might assist any reconsideration application.