Chowdhury v Marsh Farm Futures [2020]

The claimant had brought various claims against the respondent which most notably included a claim for unfair dismissal.  All of these claims were rejected by the Employment Tribunal at first instance when the claimant had represented himself.   This case was an appeal on the grounds that the Employment Tribunal had failed to adjourn the case as a result of the claimant’s health concerns at the hearing itself.  A second ground of appeal was that there was an error in law by stating the procedural defects in the dismissal had been remedied due to the substantial merits of the respondent’s case.

In terms of the first ground of appeal, it was directly relating to the