Mr C Onea v Contingent and Future Technologies Ltd (2023)

EAT held that the ET erred in denying an application for a stay pending the outcome of two ongoing High Court cases. The ET was found to have applied the wrong test, failing "to ask in which forum the dispute would be most conveniently and appropriately tried." The EAT directed that the tribunal proceedings be stayed to await the outcome of the High Court matters given the overlapping issues, that the case was of high value, that there was more deliberation time available to the High Court, and the fact that the "High Court would be embarrassed....if the ET Claim were to proceed first..[and that]...the norm is for the High Court proceedings to proceed first and the ET Claim to be stayed where such embarrassment arises."