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Employment tribunals have the power to appoint a litigation friend (Jhuti v Royal Mail Group)

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Published on: 07 August 2017

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Employment analysis: While there is no express power provided by the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 or the Employment Tribunal Rules 2013 (ET Rules) made under it, the appointment of a litigation friend is within the power to make a case management order in the ET Rules as a procedural matter in a case where otherwise a litigant who lacks capacity to conduct litigation would have no means of accessing justice or achieving a remedy for a legal wrong, according to the EAT.

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