Ms S Tronk v Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Case Number: 6018787/2025

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant: Ms S Tronk Respondent: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Before: Employment Judge P Cadney Representation: Claimant: Written Submission Respondent: Reconsideration Judgment The judgment of the tribunal is that- i) The claimant’s application to revoke or vary the Judgment is dismissed. Reasons

1. On 26 January 2026 I heard the preliminary hearing at which I dismissed the claimant’s claim for race discrimination on withdrawal; and the claim for unfair dismissal as having been presented out of time. The claimant has sought a reconsideration of the decision in respect of the dismissal of the unfair discrimination claim.

2. General Power - Rule 70 of the ET Rules gives the tribunal a general power on reconsideration toconfirm, vary or revoke the original decision where it is in the interests of justice to do so. However that does not give the tribunal a completely freestanding discretion to reconsider or vary/set aside any judgment In Outasight VB Ltd v Brown 2015 ICR D11, EAT, HHJ Eady QC accepted that the wor...

3. As set out across a number of emails, as I understand it, the claimant relies on three central points: i) That the medical evidence, whilst not directly relevant to the period in question, demonstrated she suffers from stress induced hypertension, and that the tribunal should have concluded that her dismissal would necessarily have triggered an episode of stress induced hypertension from the...