Miss Nina Kabra v Mr Tamas Baris — 2025

Miss Kabra presented her claim on 27 March 2024 and ticked boxes for religion or belief discrimination, redundancy payment, notice pay, holiday pay and arrears of pay, but gave no details of the allegations. Mr Tamas Baris did not file a response. No merits findings were made because the tribunal dealt only with case management and strike-out.

A notice for the final hearing was sent on 17 January 2025 with orders requiring the claimant to disclose relevant documents, provide a witness statement to the respondent by 14 February 2025, and send electronic copies of the statements she intended to rely on to the tribunal by 10 April 2025. The claimant did not send the tribunal copies of her witness statement, and it was not known whether she complied with the disclosure order. On 16 April 2025, when asked by Watford Listing to send documents for the hearing, she replied that she was homeless abroad and asked for the email address to be removed; she also referred to other cases. She did not attend the hearing on 17 April 2025, and no application to postpone was made.

Employment Judge Alliott held that the claimant had not given details of her claim, had failed to comply with the order to provide documents to the tribunal, and had not attended the hearing. The judge found that her conduct of the proceedings had been unreasonable and that the claim was not being actively pursued. The claim was therefore struck out under Rules 38(1)(b), (c) and (d) and Rule 47 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024.