1. Access to Justice in the Employment Tribunal
Institute of Employment Rights
Liverpool: 24 January 2017
London 8 February 2017

2. Introduction what do we mean by access to justice? ET Fees
HMCTS Reform Programme
Briggs Review of Civil Court Structure
Reform of the ET System

3. ET fees ET fees July 2013 67% fall in single claims
correlation or causation?
MoJ internal review of fees
HC Justice Select Committee inquiry
Unison court challenge
Supreme Court 27 March 2017

4. HMCTS Reform Programme
salami-slicing of resources
HMCTS reform led by senior judiciary
£1bn over 6 years
changes to:
estates IT
procedures

5. Briggs Review Review of Civil Court Structure Final Report July 2016
online dispute resolution up to £25K
employment litigation in ET, CC and HC
Single Employment & Equality Court?
proposals from
Law Society
Employment Lawyers Association

6. ET Reform consultation document on ET reform December 2016
closed 20 January 2017
digitisation of claims
delegation to caseworkers
composition of tribunal panels
flexible dispute adjudication methods
transfer of ET procedural rules from BEIS to MoJ

7. What does this mean? easier to present claims? swifter justice?
reduced complexity?
reduced costs?
what of accessible justice?
will the ET be recognisable as it is today?