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- Type:
- Employment law manual
Under review in relation to changes to employment tribunal procedure, including the relaxation of various rules to reduce tribunal backlogs by cutting down on bureaucracy and facilitating remote hearings.
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- Type:
- Legal timetable
The employment tribunal rules of procedure are amended to address delays to claims being heard because of the increase in cases following the abolition of tribunal fees in 2017 and the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
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- Date:
- 23 July 2020
- Type:
- News
The Law Society has joined the call for the Government to increase the time limit in which an individual can bring an employment tribunal claim from three months to six.
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- Date:
- 30 April 2020
- Type:
- News
Among a series of proposals aimed at improving the operation of employment tribunals and ensuring fairer outcomes to grievance claims, the Law Commission has recommended an extension to the time limit for people to bring claims to employment tribunals from the current three months to six months.
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- Date:
- 24 March 2020
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
Last week, employment tribunal judges were advised to hold all hearings remotely because of coronavirus fears - a move that could form a key step in long-awaited plans to digitise the legal process, writes Richard Fox.
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- Date:
- 25 October 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In Curless v Shell International Ltd, the Court of Appeal upheld the tribunal decision that an email that contained legal advice on how to avoid a discriminatory dismissal is protected by legal privilege because it was not advice to act in an "underhand or iniquitous way".
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- Date:
- 19 August 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In L v Q Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that the principle of open justice precludes an employment tribunal from accepting a claimant's request that its judgment not be published on the public register of tribunal decisions.
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- Date:
- 10 January 2019
- Type:
- Law reports
In The British Council v Jeffery; Green v SIG Trading Ltd, the Court of Appeal held that whether or not an expatriate employee has sufficiently strong connections with Great Britain to come within the scope of British employment law is a question of fact, but that such an evaluation is a question of law.
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- Date:
- 24 August 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In X v Y Ltd, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that an email containing legal advice on how to disguise a discriminatory dismissal as a redundancy is not protected by legal advice privilege and is admissible as evidence in a tribunal.
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- Date:
- 11 April 2018
- Type:
- Law reports
In Fleming v East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) held that covert recordings of the private deliberations of the disciplinary panel were admissible as evidence, except for any content covered by legal professional privilege.
