THE LONG-AWAITED REVIEW OF EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL FEES

The fees were introduced with a threefold objective:

1. financial: to transfer a proportion of the tribunal costs from the taxpayer to the individual (or at least those who can afford it);
2. behavioural: to encourage the use of alternative resolution mechanisms where applicable; and
3. access to justice: to protect access to justice for all.

The Ministry of Justice commenced a review of tribunal fees and has recently published its long-awaited, although arguably anti-climatic, ‘Review of the Introduction of Fees in the Employment Tribunals’.

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