Category Archives: Justice

What does the appointment of Liz Truss as justice secretary mean for the MoJ review of employment tribunal fees?

Posted on July 15, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

I’m sorry I haven’t a clue. Update (19 July): However, with the enforced departure from the MoJ this week of both slow-reading junior injustice minister Shailesh Vara and slightly less junior injustice minister Dominic Raab – who appeared to have … Continue reading →

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Latest ET stats. Nothing to see, move along.

Posted on June 9, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

It would be nice if the latest set of quarterly employment tribunal (ET) statistics, published by the Ministry of Injustice today, provided some distraction from the imminence of World War III, the associated bonfire of all our employment rights, and … Continue reading →

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71% of Acas research is rubbish

Posted on May 26, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

So, this week Acas published yet another ‘independent’ research report purporting to show how wonderful Acas is. It’s a dense and lengthy tome – 106 pages, not including the copy of its survey questionnaire – and, to convince you of … Continue reading →

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ET fees: Who said what to the Justice committee of MPs

Posted on May 4, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

With the report of the Ministry of Injustice’s internal review of the employment tribunal fees introduced in July 2013 having now been sitting on the desks of justice secretary Michael Gove and his intellectually-challenged junior minister, Shailesh Vara, for seven … Continue reading →

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Putting Shailesh Vara in context (condensed)

Posted on April 6, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

I’ve been feeling bad that my last post was a tad, well, unreadable. So this is the condensed version. With charts (see, I do love you, Gem). So, the question is: Has the introduction of Acas early conciliation been (a) … Continue reading →

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Phantom menace: ET fees & Acas early conciliation

Posted on April 4, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

As previously noted on this blog, I have been resisting the urge to write about the feeble performance of the imbecilic junior injustice minister, Shailesh Vara MP, when giving oral evidence on the impact of employment tribunal (ET) fees to the Justice … Continue reading →

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ET cases: going down. ET awards: going up.

Posted on March 31, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

A new Acas research paper – Managing conflict in the contemporary British workplace, published this week – includes some interesting, if not entirely surprising, findings on the impact of the hefty employment tribunal (ET) claimant fees introduced in July 2013. … Continue reading →

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How soon is now? Ministry of Injustice needs more time to work out the bleedin’ obvious.

Posted on March 26, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Two months ago, I was daft enough to venture on this blog that Michael Gove – everyone’s favourite justice secretary – might be close to concluding his Ministry’s snail-like review of the justice-denying employment tribunal fees introduced in July 2013. … Continue reading →

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Oh look, another set of ET claim statisti …. zzzzzzzzzzz

Posted on March 10, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Warning: This post contains selected statistics, taken in isolation and out of context         (© Shailesh Vara, junior injustice minister and officially the nation’s slowest reader) So, today the Ministry of Injustice coughed up the latest set … Continue reading →

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Paying the (s16) penalty. Or not, as the case may be.

Posted on March 5, 2016 by wonkypolicywonk

Back in January, I noted on this blog that, since the provision came into force in April 2014, only 11 penalties had been imposed on employers under section 16 of the Enterprise & Regulatory Reform Act 2013, and that only … Continue reading →

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