As previously reported, the MOJ has now launched its online service. All Employment Tribunal Judgments will now appear on the online database going forward. In addition, the MOJ has started to upload some of the older 2016 judgments. You can access the database here. Having looked at a few searches the functionality seems limited but […]
Tag: employment tribunal representation Northampton
Financial penalties fail to hit where it hurts!
On the 6th April 2014 the Government introduced new financial penalties for employers who lost in the Employment Tribunal. Employer’s who breached a worker’s rights where there was one or more aggravating features faced potential fines. In response to a parliamentary question, the business minister admitted this week that it had only been used 18 times […]
Latest Tribunal Statistics
The Tribunal statistics for the period April – June 2016 have been released. They show a marginal drop in single claims compared to the same period last year (3%) and that there has been a further increase in multiple claims by 38% for the same period. Over 15,000 claims were issued in that three month […]
Rejecting ET claims
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 […]
Unison’s ET fee challenge
At the end of February 2016, the Supreme Court granted permission to Unison to appeal the Court of Appeal’s decision on Employment Tribunal fees. The Court of appeal rejected Unison’s judicial review of the employment tribunal fee regime and the Supreme Court will now revisit this. No date has been set and it is not […]
Adding a Respondent to the Tribunal claim
The EAT has recently provided some clarity on the issue of ACAS EC and the interplay with the Tribunal’s discretion in amending and/or adding a Respondent to the Tribunal claim. In the first case, (Mist v Derby Community NHS Trust) the Claimant spelt the 1st Respondent’s name correctly on the ET1 but misspelt it on the […]
Employment Tribunal Statistics
The Ministry of Justice has published the employment tribunal statistics for the third quarter of 2015 for employment claims. The statistics cover the period July to September 2015 with the number of claims received by the tribunal similar to the previous quarter. During the period, 4,345 single claims were received by employment tribunals, which is […]
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 […]