B & M Retail Ltd

. 1 EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Claimant Respondent Mr P Odunwo v B & M Retail Limited Heard at: Bury St Edmunds (by CVP) On: 10 July 2025 Before: Employment Judge Laidler (sitting alone) Appearances For the Claimant: In person For the Respondent: Ms J Charalambous, Counsel JUDGMENT on Open Preliminary Hearing The claims brought by the Claimant are struck out within the provisions of Rule 38 Employment Tribunal Rules 2024. REASONS Background 1. This Hearing was listed at a previous Case Management hearing to determine whether the claim of race discrimination (the only claim brought) should be struck out and / or whether a deposit should be paid. The Hearing 2. The Claimant attended this Hearing which was conducted on the Cloud Video Platform (CVP). Having heard the submissions made on behalf of the Respondent and the Claimant the Tribunal adjourned, indicating its decision would be given at 11:45 am and that the parties were to rejoin on the CVP then. The Claimant had successfully rejoined following a previous adjournment. The Claimant did not reappear and despite an email sent by . 2 the clerk to him, he had still not attended by 12:05 pm when the Judge gave the decision to the Respondent. 3. As the Claimant was not able to rejoin these written reasons are provided. The Claims and Issues 4. The claim in this matter was issued on 2 June 2024. No dates of employment were given and the Claimant ticked box 8.1 stating that the only claim brought was that of race discrimination. Details were provided in section 8.2 but these only provided details of the interview process and provided no information from which any race discrimination complaint could be discerned. 5. The Respondent took this point in its Grounds of Resistance which was file...