Clause 22 - Employment tribunals
Employment Bill
11:15 am
Mr Philip Hammond (Runnymede and Weybridge, Conservative)
The hon. Gentleman makes a sensible suggestion for where a line might be drawn, but it is not the one that the Minister is proposing. The Minister is proposing to allow the friendly neighbour who is a barrister appear unpaid without jeopardy but leave, as the Trades Union Congress brief says, the totally unqualified
''independent consultants . . . who charge for their services and actively encourage claims''
vulnerable to a cost order.