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Staying order lifted on employment claims

23 August 2017
Categories: Legal News , Tribunals , Employment
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The president of the employment tribunals has lifted his order that all employment law claims be stayed if they are reliant on the Supreme Court ruling that employment tribunal and Employment Appeal Tribunal fees are unlawful.

Judge Brian Doyle, issued an order on 9 August staying all employment law claims reliant on the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in R (on the application of Unison) v Lord Chancellor [2017] UKSC 51. He ordered that they be stayed to await decisions of the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service in relation to the implications of that decision.

However, this order was lifted in Judge Doyle’s second order on 18 August. All employment claims are to proceed in the usual way.

His order states that applications for reimbursement of fees and applications for the reinstatement of claims rejected or dismissed for non-payment of fees ‘shall be made in accordance with administrative arrangements to be announced by the Ministry of Justice and Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service shortly’.

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