The Advisory Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS) was founded in 1975 to help improve employment relations. All employment tribunal (ET) cases have an appointed ACAS officer to ‘conciliate’ (to act as an independent intermediary to facilitate settlement). Clients are often mistaken in believing that ACAS officers are lawyers. They are not and ACAS is generally […]
Claim going through the court.
Dismissal where the employer has terminated the employment contract as opposed to constructive dismissal where the employee resigns because of the employer’s fundamental or serious breach of contract.
In the employment context this usually refers to further details of the claim or response provided at the request of the opposing party.
The second period of 26 weeks of maternity leave to which employees are entitled in addition to the first 26 weeks of ordinary maternity leave.
A hearing is “adjourned” if it has begun and is put off to another day or later the same day.
Evidence to the employment tribunal (ET) may be in documents or oral (spoken). Some forms of evidence will not be allowed by the ET and are termed inadmissible. Most forms of evidence are admissible although some may not be given much weight, such as written unsworn statements from absent witnesses or incomplete or unclear tape […]
Lawyer (either solicitor or barrister) who presents the case in court. A “Solicitor Advocate” is a solicitor who has passed the qualifying examinations for higher advocacy rights of audience.
A formal sworn statement for use in legal proceedings that has been sworn in front of a lawyer. The witnessing lawyer will usually charge a fee of £5 for the main document and £2 for each appended exhibit.
A solemn undertaking that the evidence a witness is giving is true.