Case research
Tribunal-decision research
Learn how to find, compare and verify Employment Tribunal decisions without treating another case as a guaranteed prediction of your own outcome.
What you need to know
Employment Tribunal decisions can show how legal tests are applied to particular facts, but first-instance decisions do not create a simple win-rate formula and apparently similar cases can turn on different evidence.
Useful research starts with the legal issue, checks the official judgment and records why a decision is relevant. Automated summaries and classifications should be treated as research aids rather than legal findings.
What to do
Step 1
Define the issue before searching
Search for the claim, procedural point or factual pattern you need to understand rather than looking only for a desired outcome.
Step 2
Use filters to narrow the evidence
Combine claim type, employer, location, date and key terms where available, then compare more than one decision.
Step 3
Read the official judgment
Check the source decision for the facts, legal test, procedural history and remedy instead of relying only on a summary.
Step 4
Record relevance and limitations
Note which facts match, which differ and whether the decision is final, appealed or from a court that creates binding precedent.
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