"Generally well-written, insightful and practical, the Handbook’s only real failing is that it tries too hard to appeal at all levels"
Authors: John-Paul Waite, Alan Payne & Alex Ustych
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional
ISBN: 9781780433554
Price: £65
Employment Tribunals were established to deal in a practical and pragmatic way with industrial disputes. The Employment Tribunals Handbook (the Handbook) bills itself as a clear and accessible guide to the tribunals and is pitched at litigants as well as practitioners. It promotes itself as offering a comprehensive guide to bringing and defending claims through each step of the process from pre-action up to and including the hearing. It is also intended to provide tips, tactical insights, precedents and detailed guidance in clear and straightforward language. As such it sets itself a considerable task, condensed into some 520 pages over 25 chapters and a number of appendices.
Wide market
In seeking to market to the widest possible audience, from litigants in person through HR professionals and up to “seasoned” practitioners, the Handbook runs the usual risk when seeking to
