Judicial guidance re the online database of employment tribunal judgments

Table of contents

• What is the impact of this development?
• What is the background to the guidance?
• What specific issues will the guidance relate to?
• Maintaining a distinction between judgments and case management orders
• The identification of persons, and facts and characteristics relating to them
• Revisiting rules relating to dismissal of claim on withdrawal
• What are the next steps?

Article summary

Employment analysis: The President of Employment Tribunals in England & Wales, Judge Brian Doyle, has indicated to the Employment Tribunal System National User Group (England & Wales) that guidance regarding potential changes of judicial practice following the creation of the online database of employment tribunal judgments will be issued to employment judges. These changes relate to the distinction between judgments and case management orders, and to the exercise of discretion in identifying individuals in written reasons, or disclosing in those reasons personal or private information of a sensitive nature. Judge Doyle has also expressed a possible need for a future to change to the rules relating to dismissal on withdrawal.