Category Archives: Justice

ET fees: the backlash starts

Posted on September 24, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

The much belated but very welcome victory for common sense and the common law – the latter being a fairly straightforward legal concept seemingly long forgotten by the allegedly planet-sized brains in the High Court and Court of Appeal – … Continue reading →

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ET fees: Supreme Court dumps on Clarke, Cable & Grayling

Posted on July 26, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

🙏💻🙏📱🙏 👀💻👀📱👀 😀👀😄👀😃👀😆👀😝👀😂 🚫💷🚫 💥🎉👏🍸🍻🍷🎉🍺🎂🍸🍻 👏❤️💋 Supreme Court judges 💋❤️👏 👏👊😍 Adam Creme, Shantha David & Unison 😍👊👏 👏👊😎 Dinah Rose QC & Michael Ford QC 😎👊👏 👏👍😇 Caspar Glyn QC, Sean Jones QC, Darren Newman, Abi Adams & Jeremias Prassl 😇👍👏 😱⚠️ Ken Clarke, Vince Cable & … Continue reading →

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Give me six. Why not?

Posted on July 7, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Extend the time limit for submitting an employment tribunal claim – from three months to six months – in cases of pregnancy or maternity discrimination. Hmmm. Yep, I was pretty sceptical when serious people – including Equality & Human Rights … Continue reading →

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ET fees: lies, damn lies, and Ministry number-crunching

Posted on June 14, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

Previously on this blog, I had a pop at the Ministry of Injustice’s attempt – in its laughably poor report of its laughably poor internal review of the ET fees regime introduced in July 2013 – to put a figure on … Continue reading →

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ET fees: a statistical injustice

Posted on June 9, 2017 by wonkypolicywonk

The quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics issued by the Ministry of Injustice haven’t been terribly newsworthy since the figures became somewhat lacking in variability in mid-2014. So there was very little chance of the latest set – published at 9.30am … Continue reading →

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Has the Ministry of Justice solved the problem of unpaid ET awards?

Posted on December 21, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Last month on this blog, I included the low incidence to date of section 150 penalties for non-payment of an employment tribunal (ET) award – just 37 penalty notices, as of 4 November, according to BEIS’s answer to a parliamentary … Continue reading →

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ET fees: ‘full and careful’ consideration of the evidence

Posted on November 15, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

So, now we know. Brexit means Brexit, and ‘in due course’ means, well, in due course. And, thanks to a parliamentary question by Labour MP Dawn Butler, we also know that the government’s review of employment tribunal (ET) fees has been … Continue reading →

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ET fees: Ministry of Justice keeps us in the dark

Posted on October 17, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Q: How many Ministry of Justice ministers does it take to change a lightbulb? A: The Ministry’s plan for changing the lightbulb will be published in due course. Yep, when it comes to its internal review of the justice-denying employment … Continue reading →

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ET costs awards: what’s been going on?

Posted on September 22, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Rooting around in the latest set of quarterly ET statistics in the hope of finding something of interest – other than the emergent upward trend in median ET awards highlighted in my previous post – I was somewhat taken aback by … Continue reading →

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ET awards: looks like we’ve got us a trend thingy

Posted on September 10, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Six months ago, I noted on this blog that, in 2014/15, there had been a marked increase in the median awards for unfair dismissal or discrimination (the only jurisdictions for which the lackadaisical HMCTS bothers to record the relevant data). … Continue reading →

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