If you win your case in the employment tribunal, you should ask for an award of costs to cover any tribunal fees you’ve had to…
When a tribunal considers making a costs order, or the amount of a costs order, they may have regard to the party’s ability to pay…
Solicitors for employers quite often write letters with this heading. It means the letter – because it is an attempt to settle the claim –…
In Yerrakalva v Barnsley MBC, the EAT has given a helpful judgment on costs in the employment tribunals. The claimant had complained of disability discrimination.…
The Court of Appeal has handed down a short decision in St Albans’ Girl School v Neary declining to award costs against a claimant who…
Daleside is a recent EAT decision on costs. Mrs Mathew brought a direct race discrimination case, along with claims for unfair dismissal and wages. The…
Statistics are a dangerous way of looking at legal issues. While they tell us a lot about claims in general, they don’t tell us anything…
Claimants in person The number of individuals representing themselves in the employment tribunals has remained fairly constant over the last 3 years: 30,195 in 05/06;…
There are two quite separate questions here. You may want to know what it will cost you to get legal representation for your hearing. In…
Costs orders are rare in the employment tribunals and the EAT: each side pays its own costs, unless one side or the other has behaved…