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09 January 2015 / Michael Salter , Chris Bryden
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Book review: The Employment Tribunals Handbook—Practice, Procedure & Strategies for Success

"Generally well-written, insightful and practical, the Handbook’s only real failing is that it tries too hard to appeal at all levels"

Authors: John-Paul Waite, Alan Payne & Alex Ustych
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN: 9781780433554
Price: £65

Employment Tribunals were established to deal in a practical and pragmatic way with industrial disputes. The Employment Tribunals Handbook (the Handbook) bills itself as a clear and accessible guide to the tribunals and is pitched at litigants as well as practitioners. It promotes itself as offering a comprehensive guide to bringing and defending claims through each step of the process from pre-action up to and including the hearing. It is also intended to provide tips, tactical insights, precedents and detailed guidance in clear and straightforward language. As such it sets itself a considerable task, condensed into some 520 pages over 25 chapters and a number of appendices. 

Wide market

In seeking to market to the widest possible audience, from litigants in person through HR professionals and up to “seasoned” practitioners,

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