44 - Did the Tribunal's assessment rely on evidence that may never have arisen from a fair investigation?
A closer examination of the 90% reduction in compensation following Bury College's unfair dismissal of a maths teacher An Employment Tribunal found that Bury College had unfairly dismissed a maths teacher . Despite that finding, the Tribunal concluded that there was a 90% chance the teacher would have been dismissed anyway had the College followed a fair procedure. That resulted in a 90% reduction in the compensation that would otherwise have been payable. The argument is not that dismissal was impossible. The question is whether the evidence supports a reduction as high as 90% . That requires looking not simply at the flawed investigation that actually took place, but at what a genuinely fair process would probably have looked like from the moment the complaint was first made. And that raises the central question of this article: Did the Tribunal's assessment rely on evidence that may never have arisen from a fair investigation? The allegation was speci...