Rather than wait for an employment appeal tribunal, they went on strike.

The union has a further right of appeal to an Employment Appeals tribunal on a point of law.

The Employment Appeals Tribunal gave meticulous consideration to all the evidence and submissions before it.

But any criteria used must be objective, not subjective, so as, according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal:

The case will be heard by the General Teaching Council in December and an employment appeals tribunal will take place next month.

On 24 January 2004, the decision was overturned by an Employment Appeal Tribunal, which referred the case back to a new tribunal.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal decision confirms that late applications can be allowed in notwithstanding the fact that the Applicant relied on the advice of a solicitor.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal considered that there was a potentially fair reason for the dismissals and that the employer had in fact handled the matter fairly, adding:

The judgment won't appear on that site as it's for the Employment Appeals Tribunal rather than the Employment Tribunal - and this was an ET case.

He appeared in the Employment Appeal Tribunal on behalf of the employer but his arguments to deny the ladies unfair dismissal rights were emphatically rejected in the judgment.

Collins later brought a claim of unfair dismissal against Shamrock Rovers to the Employment Appeals Tribunal in Dublin, the case was settled out of court in November 2006.

The case below in the Employment Appeals tribunal ([1983] ICR 319) before appeal to the Court of Appeal is of interest, because a future UK Prime Minister was representing the employer.

In ASLEF v. United Kingdom, the European Court of Human Rights overturned an employment appeal tribunal ruling that awarded BNP member and train driver Jay Lee damages for expulsion from a trade union.

The Employment Tribunal held that Dacas had neither a contract of service with the employment agency, nor any contract at all with the council The Employment Appeal Tribunal held the Tribunal had erred in law, and Dacas was employed by Brook Street.

The Employment Appeal Tribunal decision is important because it confirmed for the first time that it is possible for an employer to be held to have discriminated against an employee in relation to an external manifestation of belief (such as a veil) and that such discrimination could be direct or indirect.

In Leeds Private Hospital Ltd v Parkin [1992]453 IRLIB 3, the Employment Appeal Tribunal upheld an industrial tribunal decision that a man with a known disability who had been absent from work for four days, as had the pregnant employee in this case, would not have been dismissed.