QFC 004/2018

Abdulla Jassim Al Tamimi v Qatar Financial Centre Authority, Qatar Finance and Business Academy LLC and Abdulla Jassim Al Tamimi v Employment Standards Office

18 November 2018

Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers President of the Court).

Order

1. The Application for Permission to Appeal against the judgment of the Court is dismissed.

2. The Application for Permission to Appeal against the decision of the Tribunal is allowed, but the appeal is dismissed.

Judgment

Introduction

1. We have heard together two applications for permission to appeal. The first relates to the judgment of the First Instance Circuit dated 13 May 2018. The second to the decision of the Regulatory Tribunal dated 8 July 2018. In each case the Applicant was refused a hearing of the merits of his claim. The Court acceded to a challenge to its jurisdiction. The Tribunal ruled that the Applicant's claim was out of time.