Amend the Employment Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations 2004, SI 2004/1861 (the 2004 Regulations).
Legislation Affected
SI 2004/1861 amended
Summary
Increase the maximum amount which an Employment Judge or tribunal may order under a deposit, costs, expenses or preparation order.
Give Employment Judges and tribunals a power to order a party to pay the expenses incurred by a witness in attending a tribunal to give evidence.
Provide that any witness statements should be taken as read and stand as evidence in chief of the witness concerned unless the Employment Judge or tribunal directs otherwise.
Also provide that rule 61(8) of Schedule 1 of the 2004 Regulations, relating to sending documents to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights shall not apply in certain cases where either the Security Service, the Secret Intelligence Service or