Miss S Webb v Hornsey Lane Estate Community Association: 6020889/2025
JUDGMENT
The claimant’s claims are dismissed under rule 47 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024.REASONS
[1]The respondent did not present a response to the claimant’s claims made in these proceedings. Those were claims of unfair dismissal and for damages for breach of contract through a failure to give proper notice. The tribunal therefore listed a hearing to take place via CVP on 15 July 2026 to determine the claims pursuant to rule 22 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024. Notice of the hearing was given to the parties on 5 December 2025.[2]The claimant did not attend the hearing at 10am, and she had not attended the hearing by 10.10am. I was informed by the tribunal’s clerk that she had Case Number: 6020889/2025 searched for emails from the claimant in relation to the case, and that she had found none in the tribunal’s inbox. I therefore decided that the tribunal’s clerk should seek to speak to the claimant by telephone (using the mobile telephone number given in the claim form) to find out why she was not present. The clerk did so, and shortly after 10.10am she informed me that the call had gone straight to voicemail.[3]I then decided to wait to see whether the claimant attended the hearing: I left the CVP hearing room open. The claimant had not attended the hearing by 11.00am. Nor had anyone else attended the hearing on her behalf.[4]Given that the claimant had not attended the hearing, rule 47 of the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 applied. That provides: “If a party fails to attend or to be represented at a hearing, the Tribunal may dismiss the claim or proceed with the hearing in the absence of that party. Before doing so, it must consider any information which is available to it, after any enquiries that may be practicable, about the reasons for the party’s absence.”[5]I decided that the claim should be dismissed on the basis that it was in the interests of justice to do so not least because it appeared to me that the claimant was not intent on pursuing her claims. Approved by