09 November 2012
Farrar v Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police UKEAT/0528/11/RN, [2012] All ER (D) 342 (Oct)
It was settled law that the decision of an employment tribunal was not required to be an elaborate formalistic product of refined legal draftsmanship, but it should contain an outline of the story which had given rise to the complaint and a summary of the tribunal’s basic factual conclusions and a statement of the reasons which led them to reach the conclusion they reached. The parties were entitled to be told why they had won or lost. There should be a sufficient account of the facts and of the reasoning to enable the EAT to see whether any question of law arose.
