This case involved a technical point that can trip up a number of employees and remove their rights - that of putting the correct name of their employer on their claim form. Strangely enough, from the tribunal decision, it looks like the respondent's representative also got the name of the employer wrong at the hearing.

The respondent's rep stated that the correct title of the Respondent was Kellor Services Ireland Limited and that the claimant had lodged the claim against Munster Joinery t/a Kellor Services Limited. It transpired that a CRO check found the company name to be Kellor Services (IRE) Limited. In effect, the EAT concluded that the claimant had inadvertently left out the '(IRE)' part of the