On 15 February 2011, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings became the first company to be convicted of the offence of corporate manslaughter...

Employers’ insurers Further move to converting the employment tribunal to a court Case Watson v Hemingway Design Ltd (In Liquidation)...

EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNALS Remote hearings Summary of most recent provisions Hearings may take place in a wholly or partly remote basis. Wholly...

The Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Early Conciliation: Exemptions and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment)...

Appeals from the Employment Tribunal to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) can only be brought on a point of law. Appeals to the EAT...

ET1 Completion of the ET1 form is not particularly difficult, but care must be taken. Details of the claim can be set out in a separate...

ET hearings are generally recognised as being stressful and unpredictable, particularly for unrepresented claimants. In practice,...

The current health crisis has resulted in mass dismissals for alleged redundancies. It is not unknown for employers to get rid of workers...

The key to understanding the English civil justice system including ET proceedings, is the central role of money. Almost every aspect of...

Most claims settle before they come to a hearing. Settlement avoids the stress, inconvenience and expense of a hearing and achieves the...

BREACH OF CONTRACT It has been reported that lawyers acting for employers are already preparing defences of frustration of contract...

The basic limitation period for ET claims is 3 months from the effective date of termination of employment (EDT). This is normally...

COSTS Costs are not automatically awarded in the ET against a losing party. The tribunal may award costs where it is satisfied that a...

If you think that you have been badly treated at work, for example by being dismissed, made redundant or subject to discrimination, the...

Employment tribunals (ET) were created as industrial tribunals by the Industrial Training Act 1964. Industrial tribunals were judicial...

The question of injury caused by noise at work deserves separate treatment because it has been the subject of a distinct line of cases....

CHAPTER 2: NEGLIGENCE Duty of Care Manufacturer Davie v New Merton Board Mills (1958) A drift (a tapered steel bar) was made by an...

Employment tribunal procedure The Report of the Donovan Commission in 1968 stated that the aim of the industrial tribunal (as it was then...

Information technology There is a movement, fortunately not currently particularly successful, towards the replacement of lawyers with...

Workplace stress As well as legal duties under statutes and regulations, employers have obligations under duties imposed by the common...