How we can help
When dealing with people, there’s a risk of claims being made. When that happens, employers naturally feel concerned about legal risks, costs and reputational damage. If an Employment Tribunal claim is brought against your organisation, you’ll want confidence that your claim is handled by experienced litigators who will work hard to protect your organisation and help you keep control of the litigation costs.
Our award-winning employment team has the experience to help. We have supported many organisations through an employment dispute. Our employment litigation lawyers are based across the country and have the dedicated legal experience with a sector focussed approach to steer your organisation to the best outcome of any dispute.
An increasing litigious workforce, and a growing number of claimants looking to represent themselves with increased employment rights, means that working with us as early as possible will help your organisation avoid expensive disputes by anticipating issues before they occur. We are pragmatic, commercially minded, and can guide your organisation on how best to mitigate risk.
We can help with:
ACAS Early Conciliation
Where your organisation is facing the threat of an Employment Tribunal claim, we can advise you at this early stage of ways of minimising the risk to the organisation and, if you want, try and settle the matter in a commercially beneficial way for the organisation.
We can provide cost certainty advice on guiding you through the process of ACAS Early Conciliation with the use of our bank of hours pricing option.
Merit assessments
We can carry out a fixed fee written merits assessment on a threatened or existing Employment Tribunal claim for as little as £950 + VAT. Identifying the strength/risks associated with any claim at an early stage is key, not least as it can then help set the strategy for defence of the claim or potential settlement.
For those in the education sector, a merits assessment is particularly useful when considering the justification of any settlement figure and working within the boundaries of spending public money.
Advocacy
It might be that you’ve been dealing with, and defending, an Employment Tribunal claim internally but would like to instruct us to represent your organisation at a hearing. We have a team of experienced solicitors who can carry out the advocacy on existing claims for a fixed fee so as to ensure cost certainty for your organisation.
Full Employment Tribunal or Employment Appeal Tribunal representation
From start to finish we can act for your organisation in defending Employment Tribunal (and Employment Appeal Tribunal) claims and ensure, from the early stages, that you are fully aware of the merits to the claim and that there is a tactical plan for defending it. We also have experience handling claims in the Court of Appeal and are well-equipped to support you in managing such matters when they arise.
We have different pricing options available (such as fixed fees, pay as you go and Bank of Hours (bought up front at a reduced hourly rate)) and can also deal with claims that are insurance funded.
We are panel solicitors for a number of the biggest Legal Expenses Insurance providers and also act for a number of education clients who benefit from the use of RPA insurance.