Category Archives: delay

Will the abolition of Employment Tribunal fees result in ‘old’ 2013-2017 cases being permitted in Tribunal?

delay, employment tribunal decisions, fee exemptions, fees, judicial reviewBy Tom Sutherland August 18, 2017

Employment Tribunal fees are illegal. This was declared on 26th July 2017 by the Supreme Court in R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor. Put simply, from that day onwards, Employment Tribunals completely scrapped both issue fees (the fee for submitting a claim form to Tribunal) and the hearing fee (the fee incurred…

appalling incompetence by an employment tribunal, yet the claimant loses out

delay, employment tribunals, procedure, strike outBy Martin Malone October 29, 2013

Elliott v The Joseph Whitworth Centre Ltd is a decision of the Employment Appeal Tribunal which demonstrates what can only be described as an abject failure of the judicial process. In his judgment His Honour Judge McMullen QC describes the chronology of relevant events as “sad and disappointing”. Mr Elliott had been working as a…