The EAT has held in the recent case of Trustees of the William Jones’s School Foundation v Parry that rule 12(1)(b) of the Employment Tribunal Rules might be outside the scope of the primary legislation which made those rules. This is technically known as being “ultra vires”. The Claimant submitted an ET1 just within the limitation period […]
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Employment Tribunal postponements
Notwithstanding the lack of a positive response to consultation on the subject the Government has confirmed that it will press ahead with plans to introduce amendments to the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules concerning postponement applications. The amendments to the rules will be that (save in exceptional circumstances): limit the number of postponements to hearings that […]
Deposit orders in the Tribunal
Under the Employment Tribunal Rules which came into force in July 2013, at a preliminary hearing, if an Employment Judge considers that any specific allegation or argument in a claim or response has little reasonable prospect of success, they can make an order requiring a deposit to be paid as a condition of continuing that […]
New ET Guidance
Sometimes it is not possible to resolve work place disputes or agree a settlement agreement and it is necessary to bring a claim before the Employment Tribunal. The President has issued new guidance for those finding themselves in the Employment Tribunal process. Whilst not binding the Tribunal must have regard to the guidance and it […]
Review of 2013
On a quiet news week I have been giving some thought to the changes of 2013. These have been vast on both a personal and employment law front. This year for me has been a change in professional roles for the better. Those of you that know me well know I now wear more than […]
Final word on the Employment Tribunal Rules
In the last of my series of blog posts on the new rules of procedure in the Employment Tribunal, I will be mopping up with any left over provisions not yet highlighted. Firstly, I have already mentioned the right to have decisions and orders reconsidered. This is new terminology for the Employment Tribunal and replaces […]
Case management in the Employment Tribunal
In the second of my blogs on the new Employment Tribunal rules, I am covering case management in the new world. Many of the rules of old remain unchanged just rewritten in a more simple plain english approach. One example of this is in the change by removing the old Rule 11(4) about copying the other […]