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The problem with Employment Tribunals goes far deeper than the legitimate examination on the issue of fees. More research seems to be the order of the day for Unison.

Employers and employees have been pitted against each other for years by a second rate, over complicated procedure, that is often applied in an arbitrary and unrecorded way. The frequency of excuses provided by Regional Judges for poor performance, corrupted records or documents that don't relate to any known hearing, is quite amazing. There is no desire within the system to embrace or accept criticism. The system has become the servant of those everyone has entrusted to maintain an effective system of justice.
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On the one hand it is too costly and disruptive to defend a claim to full hearing as it is to prosecute the justified claim. Hence the simply remedy has been for the Employer to pay a sum earlier on that is well below the amount the proper level of compensation. In turn the Employee will be get punished if they continue to Full Hearing. It is an unstated convention of Tribunal life where certain Barristers or representatives will actually decide with Employment Judges the conduct and outcome of hearings in secret meetings only disclosed by Regional Judge's after the event,.

Government is entirely happy to restrict access through fees with the intention of preventing claims being brought. government saves on Departmental costs as if a friend of business. Allied procedural rule changes mean Claimants have a mountain to climb to succeed when retaining a solicitor will be uneconomic. The Litigant in Person will face a lawyer who is, or has been the Employer Partner determined not too pay staff too much or proper pension.

The other point is that as long Tribunals are not required to record their hearings either to tape or on hard drive, there will be the continued abuse of identifiable appointed members of Tribunals manipulating the Written Record not only to prevent appeals and preserve their majesty to control their lists, but also with the very probable intention to damage litigants they do not like or who are too clever.

Nothing is easy than to send a litigant on a circular and costly appeal route by missing this or that out - that the tape or hard disk recorder would capture.

Those who want the Tribunal system to work fairly without fear or favour appear to be in the Minority. Sadly ET's have become an anti business - anti employee forum, useless to society and those who appear before them. As such people now pay lip service to Employment Law and across the board are primed to extract " justice " in other ways than bringing a complaint to Tribunal. Anarchy has finally arrived and it will be extremely costly.

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