Miss D Marriott v Royal Mail Group Ltd: 1801612/2022
JUDGMENT
In circumstances of the claimant’s non-attendance at this final hearing, the claim is dismissed pursuant to Rule 47 of the Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013.REASONS
As at 10am, when this hearing was due to commence, the claimant had not attended and had not made contact with the tribunal. The tribunal’s administration then sought to make contact with the claimant by telephone, but a call went straight through to voicemail. The tribunal then made contact with ACAS and learned that the claimant had been in touch to say that she was considering withdrawing her claim. That contact had been made, it is understood, by email. ACAS had tried to telephone the claimant, but without success. The tribunal did then manage to make telephone contact with the claimant, who informed a tribunal clerk that she was withdrawing her claim, had told ACAS that she was not going ahead with her claim and had thought that was all she had to do. The claimant was asked to notify the tribunal by email immediately of her withdrawal. No email having, however, been received from the claimant by 10:50am, the tribunal determined that the claim should be dismissed in circumstances of the claimant’s non-attendance.