Mr Fazal Sheikh First v Royal Mail Group Limited Second Respondent: Daniel Williams Third Respondent: Anthony Thorne Fourth Respondent: Paul Leishman Fifth Respondent: Stuart Khan Sixth Respondent: Adam Hinckley — 2025

The tribunal considered two extant whistleblowing detriment complaints under section 48 of the Employment Rights Act 1996. They concerned alleged detriments on 22 May 2022 and in early 2023, with the tribunal assuming an act extending to the later alleged detriment for the purpose of the preliminary issues.

The tribunal found that the complaints were outside the primary time limit. Although it accepted, taking the claimant's case at its highest, that it was not reasonably practicable for the claimant to present the Greenford OPL temporary vacancy complaint before the primary time limit expired because he did not know about it until early 2024, it found he knew enough by 22 February 2024 to bring a claim.

The tribunal found that the claimant did not provide a cogent explanation for waiting until 20 April 2024 to start ACAS early conciliation, or for waiting until 29 June 2024 to present the claim after early conciliation ended on 1 June 2024. It concluded that the complaints were not presented within a further reasonable period and dismissed them, without affecting the claimant's Equality Act 2010 complaints.