Ministry of Justice written question – answered at on 25 March 2015.
Meg Munn
Labour, Sheffield, Heeley
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, in what proportion of cases employment tribunals found in favour of the employee in the 12 months (a) before and (b) after the introduction of fees.
Shailesh Vara
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice
The table below outlines the employee success rate at employment tribunals for the 12 month period a) before and b) after the introduction of fees on 29 July 2013.
The table shows the four quarters wholly before fees were introduced from July 2012 to June 2013, and the four quarters wholly after fees were introduced from October 2013 to September 2014.
Employment tribunal cases can be brought under a number of jurisdictions called complaints. Each jurisdictional complaint is decided separately within a case. The information provided is the number of jurisdictional complaints that were decided by an employment tribunal. Individual cases can have a number of outcomes for different jurisdictional complaints.
Employment tribunal outcomes are published quarterly at: www.gov.uk/government/collections/tribunals-statistics
Jurisdictional Complaints disposed pre and post fees | ||
July 2012 to June 2013 | Total | % of total |
Claimant Successful1 | 34,998 | 42% |
Claimant Unsuccessful2 | 48,257 | 58% |
Total Jurisdictional complaints disposed | 235,811 | |
October 2013 to September 2014 | Total | % of total |
Claimant Successful1 | 23,034 | 37% |
Claimant Unsuccessful2 | 38,476 | 63% |
Total Jurisdictional complaints disposed | 218,615 | |
1 Claimant Successful includes Successful at Hearing and where a Default Judgment is made.
2 Claimant Unsuccessful includes Unsuccessful at Hearing, Default Judgment Claimant Unsuccessful, Dismissed at Preliminary Hearing and case Struck Out
Yes5 people think so
No5 people think not
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