You can settle your case by withdrawing it, or agreeing to withdraw it, in return for your former employer’s promise to pay you some money.…
Solicitors for employers quite often write letters with this heading. It means the letter – because it is an attempt to settle the claim –…
A number of people have spotted a bug in the provisions of the Equality Act 2010 dealing with compromise agreements. It may be worth explaining…
Most employment cases involve one claimant and one respondent. But many involve more – multiple claimants, multiple respondents or both. There are many ways in…
When settling claims, employers quite often try to include, alongside a confidentiality clause, a term that says if you breach the confidentiality clause, you will…
If the claimant and respondent in an employment tribunal case are going to negotiate, the time they are most likely to do it is in the last few days before the hearing. Negotiations can disrupt preparation, with potentially disastrous results if they hit a snag at a late stage.
2004 was a good year for bad ideas in the employment litigation field. One of the minor bits of foolishness was to limit the involvement…
Once the tribunal has made its decision on a case, there is normally nothing left to negotiate.
The most common exception to this rule is where the tribunal’s decision is only on liability.
If you are trying to settle a case the day before the hearing, bear in mind that you cannot safely assume that the case is…
Many organisations have standard templates for documents. In particular any organisation doing significant employment tribunal work will almost always have a standard agreement to use…