Thanks for the reply. I would normally agree with you about "bang to rights". It is just surprising that so many (21?) have been dismissed in a year or so. If Ba has nothing to fear and it believes it has a robust procedure, then surely an independent body would agree?
The difference between a tribunal and an ACAS arbitration is that a tribunal would not examine the case but the process itself. As long as the case was investigated and all stages of the disciplinary process were followed, then the actual case content would not matter. The tribunal is not there to decide whether the decision was right or wrong, unless there is the potential for discrimination in one of the protected characteristics, i.e. sex, age, religion etc...