BT plc

Reserved Judgment Case No. 2416403/2018 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Mr M Storey Respondent: BT Plc Held at: Manchester On: 13 February 2024 28 February 2024 (In Chambers) Appearances: Claimant: Written Representations Respondent: Mr H Sheehan, Counsel RESERVED JUDGMENT ON COSTS AND COSTS ASSESSMENT Employment Tribunals Rules of Procedure 2013 Rules 76 and 78 It is the Order of the Tribunal that: 1.The claimant was in breach of the orders of the Tribunal, and conducted the claims unreasonably, so as to entitle the Tribunal to make an award of costs against him, and it does so. 2.The costs payable by the claimant to the respondent are summarily assessed in the total sum of £20,000, which sum the claimant is ordered to pay the respondent. REASONS 1.By a claim form presented on 23 October 2018 , by solicitors then acting for him, the claimant brought claims of disability discrimination against his then employer, the respondent. 2. It is a salient feature of this case that the claimant , at the time that he presented this Tribunal claim , had already issued a claim for personal injury arising from an injury that he alleged he sustained in the course of his employment on or about 8 April 2014. 3. In the response to the claims the respondent raised this issue, and sought a stay of any part of the claimant’s claims which were for loss of earnings, on the grounds that there would potentially be two claims in which the same relief was being sought proceeding in two different jurisdictions. The interrelationship between the two sets Reserved Judgment Case No. 2416403/2018 2 of proceedings, and the Tribunal’s treatment of them in respect of any stay , will be discussed further below. 4. The claims were subsequently case managed at a number of preliminary hearings, which will also be discussed further below. After some delay, ...