Queensgate Investments LLP & Others v Millet [2021]

The claimant was employed by the respondent, a private equity firm, as Head of Acquisitions.  He was employed from September 2017 until he was dismissed on the grounds of redundancy in October 2020. He had brought a claim outlining that he had been automatically unfairly dismissed based upon protected disclosures that he had made.  The disclosures related to sexist, racist and homophobic language as well as purported breaches of fiduciary duty and fraud by the respondent. 

The issue that came before the EAT here was the interim relief application brought by the claimant.  The respondent argued that the interim hearing should be conducted in private to restrict the public