Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd

Subject Matter

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment tribunals — Early conciliation — Multiple equal pay claims on same claim forms — All claimants named on early conciliation certificates or schedules thereto issued by Acas — Claims with early conciliation certificate number relating to claimant somewhere on claim form allowed to proceed — Claims rejected where claimant’s certificate number not included — Whether inclusion of one valid certificate number relating to named claimant sufficient — Claimants whose claims rejected appealing — Respondent employers seeking to cross-appeal in respect of claims allowed to proceed — Whether valid “cross-appeal” where respondent thereto not appellant — Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c 17), s 18A — Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/1237), Sch 1, r 10(1) — Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 (SI 1993/2854), r 5

[2022] EAT 143; [2023] ICR 20, EAT

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS — Employment tribunals — Early conciliation — Multiple equal pay claims on same claim forms — All claimants named on early conciliation certificates or schedules thereto issued by Acas — Claims with early conciliation certificate number relating to claimant somewhere on claim form allowed to proceed — Claims rejected where claimant’s certificate number not included — Whether inclusion of one valid certificate number relating to named claimant sufficient — Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c 17), s 18A — Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/1237), Sch 1, rr 10(1), 12, 13

[2023] EWCA Civ 386; [2023] ICR 1169; [2023] IRLR 562; [2023] WLR(D) 172, CA

Appellate History

Legislation Considered

Statutes

Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (c 17), s 18A

Statutory Instruments

Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2013 (SI 2013/1237), (SI ), Sch 1, rr 10(1), 12, 13

Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 (SI 1993/2854), r 5

Cases Considered

Cases considered in: Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 386; [2023] ICR 1169; [2023] IRLR 562; [2023] WLR(D) 172, CA

Cases considered in: Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2022] EAT 143; [2023] ICR 20, EAT

Cases Cited

Cases cited in: Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2022] EAT 143; [2023] ICR 20, EAT

Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley [2019] EWCA Civ 8; [2019] ICR 910; [2019] 3 All ER 1046; [2019] WLR (D) 25, CA

Basildon and Thurrock NHS Foundation Trust v Weerasinghe UKEAT/397/14 (unreported) 19 May 2015, EAT

E.ON Control Solutions Ltd v Caspall UKEAT/3/19; [2020] ICR 552; [2019] WLR(D) 519, EAT

FSHC Group Holdings Ltd v GLAS Trust Corpn Ltd [2019] EWCA Civ 1361; [2020] Ch 365; [2020] 2 WLR 429; [2020] 1 All ER 505; [2020] 1 All ER (Comm) 719; [2019] WLR (D) 474, CA

Sterling v United Learning Trust UKEAT/439/14 (unreported) 18 February 2015, EAT

Cases cited in: Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2023] EWCA Civ 386; [2023] ICR 1169; [2023] IRLR 562; [2023] WLR(D) 172, CA

Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley [2019] EWCA Civ 8; [2019] ICR 910; [2019] 3 All ER 1046; [2019] WLR (D) 25, CA

Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley [2016] EWCA Civ 566; [2016] ICR 945; [2017] 3 All ER 636; [2016] WLR (D) 333, CA

Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley [2019] EWCA Civ 44; [2019] ICR 1118; [2019] 4 All ER 450; [2019] WLR (D) 56, CA

BESTrustees plc v Kaupthing Singer & Friedlander Ltd [2012] EWHC 629 (Ch); [2012] 3 All ER 874; [2012] WLR (D) 84; (2012) 162 NLJ 464, Ch D

Compass Group UK & Ireland Ltd v Morgan UKEAT/60/16; [2017] ICR 73, EAT

Cranwell v Cullen UKEAT/46/14 (unreported) 20 March 2015, EAT

DSG Retail Ltd v Mastercard Inc [2020] EWCA Civ 671; [2020] Bus LR 1360; [2021] 1 All ER (Comm) 63; [2020] WLR (D) 324, CA

E.ON Control Solutions Ltd v Caspall UKEAT/3/19; [2020] ICR 552; [2019] WLR(D) 519, EAT

Ellis v Bristol City Council [2007] EWCA Civ 685; [2007] ICR 1614; The Times, 21 August 2007, CA

Software Box Ltd v Gannon [2016] ICR 148, EAT

Sterling v United Learning Trust UKEAT/439/14 (unreported) 18 February 2015, EAT

Trustees of the William Jones’s Schools Foundation v Parry [2018] EWCA Civ 672; [2018] ICR 1807; [2018] WLR(D) 196, CA

Cases citing

Cases citing: Clark v Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd [2022] EAT 143; [2023] ICR 20, EAT

Finnan v Charles Russell Speechlys LLP [2023] EWHC 3058 (Ch), Ch D