The Law Society has responded to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills consultation on the Employment Tribunal rules – review by Mr Justice Underhill.
The Law Society submitted that the draft rules of procedure are a considerable improvement on the current rules and strike a good balance between the need for the rules to be clear and intelligible to tribunal participants (particularly lay parties) and providing an appropriate degree of rigour in terms of procedural clarity that enable Employment Judges to manage cases efficiently and robustly in accordance with the overriding objective of a fair hearing.