The Employment Tribunal Handbook: Practice, Procedure and Strategies for Success

The Employment Tribunals Handbook: Practice, Procedure and Strategies for Success, Sixth Edition is a comprehensive guide to bringing and defending a claim in the employment tribunal. Using a step-by-step structure, with clear examples and illustrations of the rules and principles, it covers every stage from pre-action procedure and protocols through to conducting the hearing itself, as well as the appeal process.

It provides commentary, practical examples and illustrations of rules and principles to place law and procedure in context, alongside precedents and templates for drafting key documents.

The Sixth Edition includes coverage of the changes to the tribunal fees structure after the Supreme Court deemed some associate fees unlawful, as well as changes to the rules of procedure and the associated claims process and forms.

The Employment Tribunals Handbook offers tactical insights to maximise a litigant’s prospect of success and will help the reader to:
- Commence or defend employment tribunal claims
- Prepare for and conduct preliminary hearings
- Negotiate settlement of claims
- Prepare for and conduct the full hearing
- Calculate and obtain the appropriate remedy

This is an essential title for all those who appear in employment tribunals, including solicitors, barristers, HR professionals, trade union officials and litigants in person.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional’s Employment Law online service.

Under the general editorship of John-Paul Waite and Alan Payne QC, the team of authors are Alastair Hodge, Richard Oulton, Dan Hobbs, Victoria von Wachter, Melvyn Harris, Alice Meredith, David Messling, Saara Idelbi, Cicely Hayward and Alex Ustych. They are all specialist employment law barristers at 5 Essex Court.