If you’re trying to settle your ET case, your former employer (or their lawyers) may say something like ‘This is our final offer.’ This may…
While a case is going on, the parties have to speak to each other. The practicalities of running a case require it. Disclosure needs to…
For the last few years I’ve been running the London Marathon in support of FRU (where I’m the Principal Legal Officer, Employment). This year is…
One of the current standard case management directions that tribunals send out is that, if both parties are professionally represented they should agree a list…
BIS today unveiled draft regulations bringing in radical new ways of reducing the numbers of employment tribunal claims that require a hearing. The approach is…
If you’ve been doing employment tribunal work long enough, and well enough, that you’re no longer a beginner, it’s still worth going back to where…
People can get very worried about how to send documents to other people during the tribunal process. They fear somehow doing it wrong. This is…
The vast majority of Employment Judges are, the vast majority of the time, calm and reasonable. It’s useful, however, to have in mind, when preparing…
In many schedules of loss, there are a number of different items being claimed under the heading ‘Unfair Dismissal: Compensatory Award’ or just ‘Compensatory Award’.…
In most kinds of litigation, including in the employment tribunal, there is something called the burden of proof. The party with the burden of proof…