The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024

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1. Introductory Text

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   Part 1 Introduction and general provisions

   1. 1. Citation, commencement, application and extent

   2. 2. Interpretation

   3. 3. Overriding objective

   4. 4. Alternative dispute resolution

   5. 5. Time

   6. 6. Irregularities and non-compliance

   7. 7. Delegation to staff

   8. 8. Presidential Guidance

   9. 9. Prescribed forms

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   Part 2 Starting a claim

   1. 10. Presenting the claim

   2. 11. Multiple claimants

   3. 12. Rejection: claim form not used or failure to supply minimum information

   4. 13. Rejection: substantive defects

   5. 14. Reconsideration of rejection of claim

   6. 15. Protected disclosure claims

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   Part 3 The response to the claim

   1. 16. Sending claim form to respondents

   2. 17. Response

   3. 18. Rejection: response form not used or failure to supply minimum information

   4. 19. Rejection: response form presented late

   5. 20. Reconsideration of rejection of response

   6. 21. Applications for extension of time for presenting response

   7. 22. Effect of non-presentation or rejection of response, or case not contested

   8. 23. Notification of acceptance

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   Part 4 Employer’s contract claim

   1. 24. Making an employer’s contract claim

   2. 25. Notification of employer’s contract claim

   3. 26. Replying to an employer’s contract claim

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   Part 5 Initial consideration of claim, response and reply

   1. 27. Initial consideration

   2. 28. Dismissal of claim

   3. 29. Dismissal of response or reply

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   Part 6 Case management orders and other powers

   1. 30. Case management orders

   2. 31. Applications for case management orders

   3. 32. Postponements

   4. 33. Disclosure of documents and information

   5. 34. Requirement to attend to give evidence

   6. 35. Addition, substitution and removal of parties

   7. 36. Other persons

   8. 37. Lead cases

   9. 38. Striking out

   10. 39. Unless orders

   11. 40. Deposit orders

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   Part 7 Rules common to all kinds of hearings

   1. 41. General

   2. 42. Written representations

   3. 43. Witnesses

   4. 44. Inspection of witness statements

   5. 45. Timetabling

   6. 46. Hearings by electronic communication

   7. 47. Non-attendance

   8. 48. Conversion from preliminary hearing to final hearing and vice versa

   9. 49. Privacy and restrictions on disclosure

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   Part 8 Withdrawal

   1. 50. End of claim

   2. 51. Dismissal following withdrawal

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    Part 9 Preliminary hearings

    1. 52. Scope of preliminary hearings

    2. 53. Direction for preliminary hearing

    3. 54. Preliminary hearings held in public

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    Part 10 Final hearing

    1. 55. Scope of final hearing

    2. 56. Notice of final hearing

    3. 57. Final hearing held in public

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    Part 11 Decisions and reasons

    1. 58. Decisions made without a hearing

    2. 59. Decisions made at or following a hearing

    3. 60. Reasons

    4. 61. Absence of presiding member

    5. 62. Consent orders and judgments

    6. 63. When a judgment or order takes effect

    7. 64. Time for compliance

    8. 65. The Register

    9. 66. Copies of judgment for referring court

    10. 67. Correction of clerical mistakes and accidental slips

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    Part 12 Reconsideration of judgments

    1. 68. Principles

    2. 69. Application for reconsideration

    3. 70. Process for reconsideration

    4. 71. Reconsideration by the Tribunal on its own initiative

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    Part 13 Costs orders, preparation time orders and wasted costs orders

    1. 72. Definitions

    2. 73. Costs orders and preparation time orders

    3. 74. When a costs order or a preparation time order may or must be made

    4. 75. Procedure

    5. 76. The amount of a costs order

    6. 77. The amount of a preparation time order

    7. 78. When a wasted costs order may be made

    8. 79. Effect of a wasted costs order

    9. 80. Procedure

    10. 81. Allowances

    11. 82. Ability to pay

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    Part 14 Sending documents

    1. 83. Sending documents to the Tribunal

    2. 84. Sending documents to parties

    3. 85. Sending documents to non-parties

    4. 86. Special cases

    5. 87. Alternative address

    6. 88. Date of receipt

    7. 89. Irregular sending of documents

    8. 90. Correspondence with the Tribunal: copying to other parties

    9. 91. Digital case management

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    Part 15 Miscellaneous

    1. 92. ACAS

    2. 93. National security proceedings

    3. 94. Interim relief proceedings

    4. 95. Proceedings involving the National Insurance Fund

    5. 96. Collective agreements

    6. 97. Devolution issues

    7. 98. Transfer of proceedings between Scotland and England and Wales

    8. 99. Transfer of proceedings from a court

    9. 100. Vexatious litigants

    10. 101. Information to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights

    11. 102. Levy appeals

    12. 103. Appeals against improvement and prohibition notices

    13. 104. Appeals against notices given under the Energy Act 2013

    14. 105. Appeals against unlawful act notices

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       Schedule 1

       Procedure in national security proceedings

       1. 1. Application and interpretation of Schedule 1

       2. 2. Sending of documents

       3. 3. Witness orders and disclosure of documents

       4. 4. Special advocate

       5. 5. Hearings

       6. 6. Reasons in national security proceedings

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       Schedule 2

       Procedure in equal value claims

       1. 1. Application and interpretation of Schedule 2

       2. 2. General power to manage proceedings

       3. 3. Conduct of stage 1 equal value hearing

       4. 4. Standard orders for stage 1 equal value hearing

       5. 5. Involvement of independent expert in fact finding

       6. 6. Conduct of stage 2 equal value hearing

       7. 7. Standard orders for stage 2 equal value hearing

       8. 8. Final hearing

       9. 9. Duties and powers of the independent expert

       10. 10. Use of expert evidence

       11. 11. Written questions to experts (including independent experts)

       12. 12. Procedural matters

       13. 13. National security proceedings

19. Explanatory Note