Tesco Stores Ltd (appellant) v Element & ors (respondents)

Thursday 17 July 2025

By Appellant’s Notice filed on 28 February 2025, Tesco appeals against the order made by the HHJ Tayler, sitting in the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT), sealed on 10 February 2025, giving directions at a preliminary hearing on equal pay appeals which are to be listed for full hearing .

The issue is: where an appellant to the EAT identifies alleged errors of law in its grounds of appeal and chooses to illustrate those errors of law by reference to certain specific findings within the judgment under appeal, is the scope of its appeal to any extent limited to those specific findings?

The backdrop is over 47,000 Claimants with equal pay claims against Tesco.. The claim were begin in 2018. None has been determined. The claims are in three tranches.

This appeal concerns a stage 2 equal value hearing that took place in tranche one claims in respect of three job roles in which the work of two sample claimants for each of the three roles and eight comparators have been considered.

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