UK Statutory Instrument
2024
United Kingdom
The Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024
At a glance
What this Act requires
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Schedules
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Sending of documents
Witness orders and disclosure of documents
Special advocate
Hearings
Reasons in national security proceedings
Application and interpretation of Schedule 2
Use of expert evidence
Written questions to experts (including independent experts)
Procedural matters
National security proceedings
General power to manage proceedings
Conduct of stage 1 equal value hearing
Standard orders for stage 1 equal value hearing
Involvement of independent expert in fact finding
Conduct of stage 2 equal value hearing
Standard orders for stage 2 equal value hearing
Final hearing
Duties and powers of the independent expert
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Citation, commencement, application and extent
Presenting the claim
Vexatious litigants
Information to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights
Levy appeals
Appeals against improvement and prohibition notices
Appeals against notices given under the Energy Act 2013
Appeals against unlawful act notices
Multiple claimants
Rejection: claim form not used or failure to supply minimum information
Rejection: substantive defects
Reconsideration of rejection of claim
Protected disclosure claims
Sending claim form to respondents
Response
Rejection: response form not used or failure to supply minimum information
Rejection: response form presented late
Interpretation
Reconsideration of rejection of response
Applications for extension of time for presenting response
Effect of non-presentation or rejection of response, or case not contested
Notification of acceptance
Making an employer’s contract claim
Notification of employer’s contract claim
Replying to an employer’s contract claim
Initial consideration
Dismissal of claim
Dismissal of response or reply
Overriding objective
Case management orders
Applications for case management orders
Postponements
Disclosure of documents and information
Requirement to attend to give evidence
Addition, substitution and removal of parties
Other persons
Lead cases
Striking out
Unless orders
Alternative dispute resolution
Deposit orders
General
Written representations
Witnesses
Inspection of witness statements
Timetabling
Hearings by electronic communication
Non-attendance
Conversion from preliminary hearing to final hearing and vice versa
Privacy and restrictions on disclosure
Time
End of claim
Dismissal following withdrawal
Scope of preliminary hearings
Direction for preliminary hearing
Preliminary hearings held in public
Scope of final hearing
Notice of final hearing
Final hearing held in public
Decisions made without a hearing
Decisions made at or following a hearing
Irregularities and non-compliance
Reasons
Absence of presiding member
Consent orders and judgments
When a judgment or order takes effect
Time for compliance
The Register
Copies of decisions for referring court
Correction of clerical mistakes and accidental slips
Principles
Application for reconsideration
Delegation to staff
Process for reconsideration
Reconsideration by the Tribunal on its own initiative
Definitions
Costs orders and preparation time orders
When a costs order or a preparation time order may or must be made
Procedure
The amount of a costs order
The amount of a preparation time order
When a wasted costs order may be made
Effect of a wasted costs order
Presidential Guidance
Procedure
Allowances
Ability to pay
Sending documents to the Tribunal
Sending documents to parties
Sending documents to non-parties
Special cases
Alternative address
Date of receipt
Irregular sending of documents
Prescribed forms
Correspondence with the Tribunal: copying to other parties
Digital case management
ACAS
National security proceedings
Interim relief proceedings
Proceedings involving the National Insurance Fund
Collective agreements
Devolution issues
Transfer of proceedings between Scotland and England and Wales
Transfer of proceedings from a court
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