Ms B Malekela v West London Mental Health Trust — 2021

By a letter dated 12 June 2021, the tribunal gave Ms B Malekela an opportunity to make representations or request a hearing on whether the claim should be struck out. The stated grounds were that the manner in which the proceedings had been conducted by or on behalf of the claimant was scandalous, unreasonable or vexatious, and that the claimant had not complied with the tribunal’s orders made at the hearing of 18 December 2020, sent to the parties on 11 January 2021, including an apparent failure to disclose relevant documents as required by paragraph 6.

The claimant did not make written representations to the tribunal, and comments made to the respondent’s representative by or on behalf of the claimant were found insufficient to explain why the claim should not be struck out. No hearing was requested. The tribunal therefore struck out the claim under rule 37, and recorded that the hearing listed for 12 to 14 July 2021 would not take place.