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In AB v University of East London and other cases, the EAT has summarised the Appeal Tribunal’s approach in considering whether to exercise its discretion to extend time under rule 37 of the Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 where an appeal has been lodged in time but without some of the required documents and the omission has been rectified outside the time limit.

In Dowding v The Character Group plc, the EAT has held that an employment tribunal erred in its decision to order the claimant to pay the respondent’s costs of defending the claimant’s unsuccessful claims and its costs in respect of the costs hearing.

In Commissioners for His Majesty's Revenue and Customs v Professional Game Match Officials Ltd, the Supreme Court has held that contracts between part-time football referees and their administrative body, which were entered into each time they were engaged to officiate at a particular match, met the minimum requirements necessary to establish the existence of a common law contract of employment.