EC certificate not required for a claim added by way of amendment

In Science Warehouse Limited v Mills the EAT held that a Claimant did not need to go through the early conciliation process in respect of adding a victimisation claim by way of amending her existing claims of pregnancy/maternity discrimination. Amending the existing proceedings is within the case management powers of the Tribunal’s case management and the Tribunal is not required to refuse to add a claim in respect of which the early conciliation procedure had not been observed.