If you think you have been unfairly dismissed, been made redundance, suffered discrimination, harassment or victimisation or had any other problem with either your current or past employer, please contact us, as we may be able to help you pursue a case in the Employment Tribunal.

Call us now on 0844 478 1177 or email with brief details of your complaint and we will be happy to discuss it with you initially for no charge. We have a range of options on how we can proceed but for more information, please read our terms of business.

Attending an Employment Tribunal for the first time can be a daunting experience, and even experienced managers, when having to give evidence can feel extremely nervous. If you get an opportunity prior to your own hearing it might be useful to try and visit the centre at which you are due to have your case heard. Most hearings are open to the public and if you turn up at around 9:45 at any of the tribunal offices and ask to be admitted to a case as an observer, the staff will usually be very happy to help you. Better still, ring the office a couple of days before you want to go and they will have time to look at the cases and allocate you to an appropriate room. Visiting another hearing in which you are not involved can be useful for many reasons, it will help you get used to the procedures, the way the room is laid out, how people give evidence the sorts of things judges and members ask and numerous other small items that will help put your mind at rest when you turn up for your own case.

Once you have submitted your claim form – the ET1 - your ex-employer (the respondent), has 28 days to submit their response to your claim. Your claim form will be sent to the respondents and you as the claimant, will receive a copy of the form returned by the respondent. There will then be an extended period of time during which you will need to prepare your case gather all the documents that you require, seek any documents from the other side, and exchange those documents.

It is important that you prepare all the documents on which you wish to rely before the hearing commences. The papers that are used in the tribunal hearing itself are referred to as “the bundle”, and preparing this bundle, numbering the pages and sorting out a chronology can be extremely time-consuming and relatively stressful.

We are passionate about promoting good practice in employment for both parties. Companies must make sure they have robust and legally compliant employment processes which are applied and followed correctly; individuals should ensure they do the job for which they are paid and do not give the employer any cause for concern about their performance. If this happened in every case then there would be no need for organisations such as ours as there would never be any dispute.