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BA Accounting & Finance, Corporate & Business Law Assignment

For my chosen assignment I attended the East India tribunal service, which is located in East London, Clove Crescent and attended a proceeding which involved 2 parties, the claimant Mr L Taylor and the respondent G4S Legal Department. The judge/Chairperson allocated for the case was Mr A Ross. The estimated hearing length for the case was 2 days and the purpose of the tribunal was that Mr L Taylor believes he was wrongly fired from his position as a cashier within G4S, and describes the actions of other employees, in which he claims were treating him unfairly, as being similar to an “entrapment”. During the hearing, Mr L Taylor (who was representing himself during the hearing) claimed he was unfairly dismissed through actions which are no fault of his own, in this case leaving his cashier within his workplace (G4S) 3 inches open unintentionally, whereas you are required to completely seal it before leaving your work desk. He then claims that Mrs Rachel Smith (a witness within the case) proceeded to her desk and withdrew 5 50 pound notes totalling to 250 pounds and then reported this to a senior cashier, which she explained is common practise within the workplace to show cashiers, in this case Mr L Taylor, the consequences of his actions and what in could potentially lead to. Mr L Taylor states this was “unfair” as there is no legislation within the workplace that this should be the case and that could condone her actions; however Mrs Rachel Smith states that there is an “unwritten” law which promotes these actions and that there have been cases of it happening before.

There are numerous issues which are considered at pre-hearing reviews such as if the claim was submitted within the time eligible, or whether the claimant, Mr L Taylor is entitled to bring the claim into query in the first place by either examining the “employee” vs “worker” position or by also inspecting Mr L Taylors length of...