Jason Elliott was called to the Bar of Northern Ireland in 2013 and is the Associate Head of School of Law at Ulster University. As a practising barrister, he has developed a largely civil practice representing individuals, companies and public bodies in litigation. This covers a wide range of areas including personal injuries, wills and employment law. In terms of employment law, he has represented both applicants and respondents in the Industrial Tribunal. At Ulster University, Jason lectures extensively on the civil areas of practise such as Equity and Trusts and delivers employment law lectures for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.
The claimant was employed by the respondent supermarket as a forklift driver/warehouse operative from 1 May 2008 until his dismissal on 18th March 2019. There were a number of reasons put forward by the respondent after an investigation leading to a dismissal for gross misconduct. This ranged from the claimant indicating that he had seen a fellow-employee getting changed and seeing her underwear to making of a false report about another colleague. The content of the false report was that another employee had been working for another supermarket whilst he had been off sick from the respondent.
In the investigation, the claimant agreed that the report had been false and in evidence at the Tribunal he attempted to say
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