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28/01/2025

When considering an application to the Employment Tribunal it’s worth considering the legal basis of your claim. For many claims the Equality Act 2010 comes up. So an intro….

Equality Act 2010 Part 5 is where work is covered.

There are Many areas of this act and they apply to the 8 protected characteristics.
1. Age
2. Disability
3. Gender reassignment
4. Marriage and civil partnerships
5. Race
6. Religion or Beliefs
7. S*x
8. S*xual orientation

For each of these characteristics various forms of discrimination may apply. Namely:

1. Direct discrimination
2. Indirect discrimination
3. Discrimination arising from disability
4. Duty to make reasonable adjustments
5. Harassment
6. Victimisation

There are various definitions that apply, and requirements for us to define as applicable, as well as burden of proof requirements and length of service.

Separate to the equality act primary legal basis for tribunal claims may include:
- whistleblowing
- unfair dismissal
- wrongful dismissal
- constructive unfair dismissal
- TUPE cases (redundancies and take overs)
- deductions of pay (holiday pay, wages or notice pay)

The aim of this page is to build a wealth of resources for others to access. Not only does that mean legal knowledge but knowledge of how the tribunal process works what it all means and templates to save you time.

Why? Well just becasue it happened to me, doesn’t mean it has to happen to everybody else. I just aim to help others have an easier time of it with greater chance of success in enforcing their rights.

01/01/2025

Hello and welcome to 2025! As we face another orbit round the sun, I reflect on all I've learnt in the employment tribunal process and how much knowledge and law application I've absorbed through this process since 2022 as I self represent in my own Employment Tribunal. For legal reasons I cannot yet disclose who against unless I face the final hearing mid-end March - just 10 weeks 11 weeks away. When I searched high and low for disability discrimination that autistic claimants and those with ADHD or other neurodiversity's face, I found little success. Why? Well I believe too often it's overwhelming, law is complex in language and application and cases don't fail based on merits in the main, but I believe a lack of legally well presented claims by those without access to legal education and support due to costs, time or capability. I decided to share everything I encountered navigating an incredibly overwhelming and complex system in the hope that those in similar positions may be a step ahead of me when seeking their own legal justice and with the ambition of helping others increase their chances of success. I'll build a resource page with links, documents, templates and guidance. I do this free of charge but as I consider a future direction towards law, I hope to be able to offer more practical assistance in the future (without high costs of legal fees, instead practical help with the tasks needed in tribunals when acting as a litigant in person). I found myself so hopeless in 2022 coming head to head in employment against employers who had lawyers acting for them even in grievance processes, I became so exhausted and found so little support navigating this I attempted to exit life without saving changes so to speak. Something changed early 2023 upon resignation where a determination to not let this go without justice. I couldn't;t simply be the cost of a corporate's lessons. I investigated solicitors but then realised wait. The person who knows the details of your case the most IS YOU. and so it was I set about applying my autistic brain to learning every detail of every law that had been broken and ho two articulate that - using the only tool we have to seek justice - LAW. I hope this page helps even just one other person to success - it will help transform what was the darkest most traumatic period of my life into some purposeful positive outcome.

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