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3 April 2006
Sheila and her husband were employed as petrol retailers in the business of joint running of a petrol station for a large Oilco. Though they signed what the Oilco called an 'Evergreen' contract, they were dismissed from the station after less than a year.
They brought a claim in the Employment Tribunal, and conducted it themselves, without lawyers. On the threat of substantial legal costs against them if they went on, they gave up the claim at the Tribunal door.
They appealed this situation with FK's help, to the Employment Appeal Tribunal, and had to defend their success against the Oilco in the Court of Appeal. John Kelly, FK's solicitor/advocate, represented Sheila in the Court of Appeal alone, against a Q.C and another lawyer for the Oilco. At, no doubt four times the cost. But it was Sheila who prevailed and won the right to pursue her claim back in the local Tribunal.
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