Employment Tribunal Remedies Handbook 2015 16 HD

BOOK REVIEW EMPLOYMENT TRIBUNAL REMEDIES HANDBOOK 2015-16 By James Wynne Littleton Chambers With a Foreword by Judge Brian Doyle ISBN: 978 0 95677 745 4 BATH PUBLISHING LIMITED www.bathpublishing.co.uk A MOST IMPORTANT AND WELL ESTABLISHED GUIDE FOR APPLICANTS WHICH IS VERY USER-FRIENDLY FOR LITIGANTS IN PERSON An appreciation by Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers This excellent user-friendly remedies guide continues to offer some of the most useful current advice available for those who are applicants or defendants in employment tribunal matters and it is now in a new edition for 2015-16. So, if you, as either a lawyer, adviser or trade union representative together with your client are, or may be contemplating taking an employer to an employment tribunal, your first question (rather than the last one) remains, ‘what do you expect to gain should you win your case?’ Here are some of the answers and do read the introduction for the changes to this year’s book! And if you look at it another way, think about the remedies you seek before the tribunal process even begins, provided of course, that your case is strong enough. This is where the latest edition of Bath Publishing’s informative “Employment Tribunal Remedies Handbook” for 2015-16 comes in most handy with all the continuing changes and, frankly the difficulties as well, which have surfaced in these types of tribunal matters in recent years. Such considerations are not merely important as we have said before… they are of course paramount – and more so than ever in view of the hike in employment tribunal fees which occurred causing some re-thinking by applicants although figures for tribunal applications have now risen again after the initial shock of the fee changes which led to re-consideration in many cases. It is more important than ever today to assess the value of an employment claim from the start, so the publication of this new Handbook by Bath Publishing is once more timely and will be much welcomed by those involved for the special expertise which James Wynne gives us here. Produced as usual in a handy spiral-bound A4 format, the Handbook is actually an A to Z guide which covers a wide range of topics. These range from ‘ACAS’ and ‘accelerated payment’, through to ‘remedies’, ‘written reasons for dismissal’ and ‘written statement of particulars’. The book provides some forty tables covering such areas as fees (perhaps this section should be studied first!) interest, pensions and much more, including the answers to questions involving adjustments to basic awards, ex gratia payments and so on. Prior to the publication of this Handbook, you would have had to track down such information across a number of different sources. Here, however, you have it all brought together in one place. James Wynne who edits the excellent book is an experienced barrister who undertakes advocacy and advisory work in this complex area of law and regu