One of the current reforms being considered is the use of courts online including the potential for employment courts online. Lord Justice Briggs has recently been carrying out a review of civil courts to look where efficiencies can be made. The report is due out before the end of the year but will be looking […]
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Employment Tribunals
By way of an update, the Ministry of Justice has published tribunal statistics for January to March 2014 which show a continuation in the reduction in the number of claims since fees were introduced in July 2013. This time the drop was around 59% for single individuals compared with the same period in 2013. Unison […]
Tribunal Awards
According to BIS 35% of claimants failed to receive their Tribunal Award. The research was conducted between May and June 2013 into whether awards were paid, the effect of non-payment and the reasons for non-payment. The actual figure may be even higher as some claimants who answered were unsure whether they had been paid in full […]
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 […]