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Fees in the Employment Tribunal

The new fees in the Employment Tribunal come into force on the 29th July 2013, gone will be the days of access to justice for all. Access will come with a price tag, subject of course to the possibility of a fee remission, which I hope will work well in practice to avoid those with […]

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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 […]

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New rules in the Employment Tribunal

In honour of the changes to the Employment Tribunal rules of procedure which will come into force later this month, this is the first in a series of blogs to highlight the key issues for the parties. The main change to the overriding objective in employment tribunal cases is the addition of wording “avoiding unnecessary […]

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Employment tribunal claims

The much publicised changes to the Employment Tribunal rules of procedure and the introduction of fees in the Employment Tribunals will come into force on 29th July 2013. The later being the biggest change of all, ground breaking in the employment world. I will produce a series of blogs over the forthcoming week or so […]

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Costs in the Employment Tribunal

We will in due course see the effects of the changes to the costs regime in the Employment Tribunal, following the review by Mr Justice Underhill, which is due to come into force this summer.  Whilst cases on this issue will take a while to filter through, the aim was to simplify the rules on costs […]

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Vexatious litigants in the Employment Tribunal

Whilst thankfully not something one comes across every day, I do have personal experience of acting for an employer client who faced one such serial litigant in their recruitment agency business.  The individual in question was an applicant for a job never having worked for the respondent or the other dozen or so respondents against whom […]

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