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…
Many Employment Tribunal respondents are companies. So it’s worth knowing about Companies House. CH is the part of the UK government that acts as the…
The primary aim of written submissions to persuade the Judge to decide in your favour. This means doing two things. First, explaining your case (both…
Solicitors who compile hearing bundles sometimes put in a tabbed divider card for every single document. That’s a pain: it adds a lot of bulk…
If you think you’ve been dismissed for trade union activities, or whistle-blowing (or one of a short list of other specific reasons), you can ask…
When a statute or statutory instrument is first passed its sections are numbered sequentially: s1, s2, s3, s4 and so on. Over time, two things…
‘Confirmation bias’ is the name given to the psychological process by which we all tend to fit the evidence we encounter to our pre-existing beliefs,…
The EAT has published its list of Familiar Cases. These are the cases that are so commonly cited that the EAT keeps copies of them…
This isn’t a legal tip, but it is very useful. If you write a lot, particularly if you write the same thing a lot, it…