EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS (SCOTLAND) Case No: 4102106/2017 Telephone Conference Preliminary Hearing at Edinburgh on October Employment Judge: M A Macleod v Represented by Mr G Mitchell Solicitor Robert Masterton Reg Vardy Ltd — 2017

This was a preliminary hearing by telephone on 13 October 2017 before Employment Judge Murdo Macleod. The claimant said that he had suffered detriments contrary to section 47B of the Employment Rights Act 1996 and had been constructively unfairly dismissed, referring to section 103 of the 1996 Act or alternatively section 98. The respondent accepted that fair notice of the claims had been given and said there were only minor specification issues to be dealt with between the representatives. The tribunal recorded that there were no preliminary issues and that the case should be listed for a hearing on the merits.

The parties agreed that Reg Vardy Ltd was the correct respondent. The claimant was content for the other named respondents to be discharged. The judgment records that the claim insofar as directed against Pendragon PLC, Reg Vardy Limited trading as "Evans Halshaw Renault Edinburgh West", and Reg Vardy Limited trading as "Evans Halshaw Renault Edinburgh" had been withdrawn by the claimant and was dismissed under Rule 52. No findings were made on the merits of the whistleblowing or dismissal complaints against the remaining respondent.

The tribunal made case-management orders for the merits hearing, which was to include remedy. Those orders required exchange of a draft list of documents and copies of documents relied on, preparation of a joint bundle, a written statement quantifying loss and mitigation, and a joint list of issues together with a joint statement of agreed facts. The hearing was to be before a full tribunal in Glasgow.