Natasha Stevens v Hygiene Contracts Ltd — 2025

Natasha Stevens' claim against Hygiene Contracts Ltd was listed for a case management preliminary hearing by CVP on 2 April 2025 before Employment Judge V Othen. The claimant did not attend and gave no reason for her absence. The tribunal recorded that notice of the hearing had been sent to the email address on the claim form, that the tribunal tried to contact her by telephone on five occasions, and that an email sent at about 10.10 had not produced any response by 10.30.

The respondent's representative told the tribunal that she had emailed the claimant on 25 March 2025 with a copy of the agenda, and that the email had been received because a read receipt was returned. In those circumstances, the tribunal concluded that it was in accordance with the overriding objective to dismiss the claim under Rule 47 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024. The judgment records no substantive findings on the underlying unfair dismissal and sex discrimination complaints and no remedy was awarded.