Law digest: Employment law

Judicial tribunals have an obligation to give reasons which are “candid, intelligible, transparent and coherent”. Transparency means that properly drawn reasons should make it possible for the reader to find sources, especially but not only sources of law, which are referred to but not recited. While there is no universal test of procedural irregularity, a tribunal’s determination is not vitiated by reference to uncanvassed authorities if these have not been central to and influential in the eventual decision.