Employment Appeal Tribunal

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This Overview provides guidance on the procedures in the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), including jurisdiction, time limits, submission of an appeal, preliminary sifting, preliminary hearings and track allocation, responding to an appeal, case management (as well as non-standard case management considerations), preparation for and procedure at EAT main hearing, settlement, withdrawal and consent orders, orders on outcome of an appeal, costs, interest, enforcement of awards, review of EAT decisions and appeals from the EAT.

The EAT exists and derives its substantive powers from statute. It is a superior court of record and of equivalent status to the High Court.

The EAT's central office is in London. Generally, hearings take place in London and Edinburgh.

The EAT has its own set of rules and also a Practice Direction (the Employment Appeal Tribunal Practice Direction 2024 replaced the 2023 Practice Direction with effect from 1 February 2025).

Jurisdiction of the EAT

There are a few types of applications that are made directly to the EAT but in the vast majority of cases the EAT is an appeal tribunal. Most appeals to the EAT are from decisions of employment tribunals,

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