Simmons v Bromley GP Alliance

Case Numbers 6043834/2025, 6044331/2025 1 of 4 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Heard atCroydon (by video)On 29 January 2026 ClaimantMrs Virlinger Simmons RespondentBromley GP Alliance BeforeEmployment Judge Fowell Appearances ClaimantIn Person RespondentNo appearance JUDGMENT ON A PRELIMINARY ISSUE The application for interim relief is dismissed. REASONS 1.This is an application for “interim relief”, which is a term used for various orders a Tribunal can make shortly after someone is dismissed, the most common being that they are reinstated to their old job until a final hearing. 2.The legal framework for applications for interim relief begins at section 128 Employment Rights Act 1996. 3.There are strict time limits. By subsection (2): The tribunal shall not entertain an application for interim relief unless it is presented to the tribunal before the end of the period of 7 days immediately following the effective date of termination (whether before, on or after that date). 4.Here, the claim form was presented on 27 November 2025. It did not state when Mrs Simmons had been dismissed. From the documents provided for this hearing, the concern is not so much that Mrs Simmons’ application was late, but that it was too early. She was dismissed on 18 December 2025. 5.She confirmed today that she was in her probation period when she brought the claim and was signed off sick. A meeting was arranged for 1 December and she was told that she might then be dismissed, but she was off sick so the meeting Case Numbers 6043834/2025, 6044331/2025 2 of 4 was adjourned until 18 December. She was still off sick when that date came around but this time the meeting went ahead, in her absence, and she was dismissed. 6.Section 128 begins: (1) An employee who presents a complaint to an employment tribunal that he has been unfairly dismissed... may apply to the tribunal for interim relief.” 7.So, the first requirement is to have presented a...