Employment tribunal fees: the Supreme Court also granted permission to appeal to Unison, the trade union, in its challenge to the lawfulness of the employment
tribunal fees regime introduced by the coalition government.
The Supreme Court also granted permission to appeal to Unison, the trade union, in its challenge to the lawfulness of the employment
tribunal fees regime introduced by the coalition government.
Minutes from the latest meeting of the Employment Tribunal National User Group have revealed that, since the employment
tribunal fees regime came to an end last year, there has been a 100 % increase in the number of claims received by employment tribunals...
Minutes from the latest meeting of the Employment Tribunal National User Group have revealed that, since the employment
tribunal fees regime came to an end last year, there has been a 100 % increase in the number of claims received by employment tribunals compared to the period immediately before the Unison decision in which employment tribunal fees were held to be unlawful.
Not exact matches
If a statute allows for
tribunal costs, a
regime of fixed
tribunal fees in advance has significant merits over a
regime that allows — and effectively requires — a losing respondent to dredge through the actual reimbursable disbursements of panellists, for example, to ensure reasonableness.
Before the introduction of the
fees regime, access to employment
tribunals was free of charge.
The Supreme Court has allowed the appeal by Unison against the legality of employment
tribunal fees, holding that the current
fees regime prevents access to justice and is unlawful.
With the abolition of the
fees regime, the number of
tribunal claims has started to increase, so this month we go back to basics and discuss:
Among the things that the Court took account of were «a dramatic and persistent fall in the number of claims» brought in Employment
Tribunals following the introduction of
fees, and a singularly ungenerous
regime for reducing or waiving
fees for those least able to pay.