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Introduction
This judicial review matter concerned a challenge to the handling of an unfair dismissal claim by an Adjudication Officer of the Workplace Relations Commission (“WRC”). Simons J. provided a robust judgment, dismissing the Applicant’s challenges in their entirety and making salient and more widely-applicable findings regarding the application of the Supreme Court judgment in Zalewski v. An Adjudication Officer [2021] IESC 24, [2021] 32 E.L.R. 213; the administration of justice; and the appropriate use of judicial review proceedings.
Background
On 31 January 2020, the Applicant brought an unfair dismissal claim against the Respondent before the WRC. The claim had had been part heard over five days, but not yet determined, when the Zalewski judgment was
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