Andrew Gale is among a quartet of ex-employees whose legal disputes with Yorkshire will begin on May 6.

Leeds Employment Tribunal have listed a private preliminary hearing for that date after accepting and serving the claims of former head coach Gale, Ian Dews, the second XI coach, Richard Damms, the academy director, and strength and conditioning coach Peter Sim against the club.

Dews is the lead case, but all will be heard together as the claims are based on the same set of facts.

The four men were sacked along with 12 others in early December last year as part of a rebuild at Headingley by chair Lord Patel triggered by Azeem Rafiq’s accusations of institutional racism at the club.

It is understood the reason for their terminations and strength of any evidence against them will be challenged, and perhaps most significantly whether due process was followed.

Some of Patel’s predecessors at the club have accused him of acting without a mandate since being parachuted in as Roger Hutton’s successor four months ago.

Yorkshire - who fly out to Dubai for a pre-season tour on Sunday - intend to ratify the position of Patel and that of chief executive Paul Hudson at an extraordinary general meeting on March 14.

In the interim, the LET will consider the merits of multiple other wrongful dismissal claims in what could potentially prove a financial calamity for Yorkshire given that they are already 20million in debt.

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