s.80Appeal from Employment Tribunal
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Section 80Part 10 — ADMINISTRATION AND DISPUTE SETTLEMENT

Appeal from Employment Tribunal

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A party dissatisfied by —
a decision of an Employment Tribunal may, within fourteen days of notification of the decision appeal to a summary court, which shall examine the record from the Employment Tribunal and may, in addition, if it considers it necessary or expedient to do so, hear all the evidence again before making its own findings;
a notice to remedy issued under section 69 may, within fourteen days of the service of the notice, appeal to a summary court, which shall hear the matter and make a determination.
Except as provided in section 69 (6), the filing of an appeal pursuant to subsection (1) (relating to appeals to the summary court) operates as an automatic suspension of the need to comply with an award or other order made by the Employment Tribunal or a notice to remedy issued under section 68, but, subject only to subsection (8) of this section, the filing of an appeal from the summary court to the Grand Court shall not operate as an automatic suspension of the need to comply with an award or order of the summary court.
Decisions of an Employment Tribunal under this Law may be made public at the discretion of the Tribunal.
No member of an Employment Tribunal shall be liable in any civil court for any act done or ordered to be done in good faith in the discharge or purported discharge of his functions under this Law, unless it is proved that he acted maliciously or without reasonable cause.
Any party dissatisfied by a decision of a summary court may, within fourteen days of the decision, appeal to the Grand Court but only on a point of law or any matter with respect to which judicial review would lie against a public authority (including but not limited to an allegation of bias or other impropriety against the Employment Tribunal), and the decision of the Grand Court upon an appeal shall be final and binding on all the parties.
In the handling of appeals under this section, the summary court and the Grand Court shall, subject only to this Law, apply the same rules of procedure as they apply in similar civil matters heard under their general jurisdiction.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is declared that subsection (7) of section 59 (relating to the powers of a summary court and Grand Court in appeals) applies to the summary court or Grand Court in relation to variation of a penalty referred to in section 59 in the same way that it applies to awards referred to in that subsection.

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