Tag Archives: Access to justice
ET claims: the new normal
So, with today’s publication by the Ministry of Injustice of the latest set of quarterly tribunal statistics, giving us five full months’ worth of ET claim/case statistics since the Supreme Court did the High Court’s job for it and ruled … Continue reading
ET fees: the backlash starts
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
ET fees: Supreme Court dumps on Clarke, Cable & Grayling
ππ»ππ±π ππ»ππ±π πππππππππππ π«π·π« π₯πππΈπ»π·ππΊππΈπ» πβ€οΈπΒ Supreme Court judgesΒ πβ€οΈπ πππΒ Adam Creme, Shantha David & Unison πππ πππΒ Dinah Rose QC & Michael Ford QCΒ πππ πππΒ Caspar Glyn QC, Sean Jones QC, Darren Newman, Abi Adams & Jeremias PrasslΒ πππ π±β οΈΒ Ken Clarke, Vince Cable & … Continue reading
ET fees: a statistical injustice
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
ET fees: Who said what to the Justice committee of MPs
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
Phantom menace: ET fees & Acas early conciliation
AsΒ previously noted on this blog, I have beenΒ 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
ET cases: going down. ET awards: going up.
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