Mr D Petrakov v In Touch Communication Cabling Ltd (In voluntary Liquidation): 3304111/2018
JUDGMENT
[1]The claim is dismissed.REASONS
[1]This was a claim for arrears of pay and failure to provide a Contract of Employment, set out extensively on the claimant’s behalf in a lengthy summary prepared by a CAB.[2]The claim was served on 28 February 2018 and notice of this hearing was given to the parties on the same day.[3]The tribunal file indicates that the respondent entered creditors voluntary liquidation on 3 April 2018.[4]No response was received.[5]In accordance with normal practice a member of tribunal staff sent an email to the claimant the day before this hearing (at 14:23) to ask that he confirm his attendance.[6]By email reply of 21:30 that evening, the claimant asked for a postponement. He wrote that he had a health problem and had been abroad for a month. Case Number: 3304111/2018[7]I decline to allow a postponement. The claimant has known of this hearing date since 28 February, and says that he has been abroad since about mid-July. He has made no application to the tribunal for a postponement. There is no evidence of his whereabouts and no evidence of his ill health. It is furthermore not in the interests of justice to allocate further judicial resource in a case where the respondent is in liquidation.[8]In the absence of evidence before the tribunal to make good the submissions in the claim form, the claim is dismissed.