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A Disheartening Experience: My Review of the Employment Tribunal Process

My recent encounter with the Employment Tribunal left me deeply disillusioned and disheartened. As someone who sought justice for discrimination in the workplace, my experience revealed systemic flaws within the tribunal process that undermine its purported objective of fairness and impartiality.

Firstly, the tribunal's lack of understanding and sensitivity towards neurodiversity was glaringly evident. Despite autism being a neurodevelopmental condition, the tribunal erroneously classified it as a mental health issue. This misclassification not only demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of neurodiversity but also perpetuates harmful stereotypes and discrimination.

Moreover, the tribunal displayed a concerning bias towards employers, undermining the very essence of impartiality. This bias manifested in their dismissal of key evidence supporting my case and their apparent reluctance to apply the law equitably. Such behavior not only erodes trust in the tribunal but also perpetuates a culture where employers feel emboldened to engage in bullying and harassment with impunity.

Furthermore, the tribunal's dismissiveness of crucial evidence further compounded the injustice I faced. By failing to give due consideration to vital pieces of information, the tribunal effectively silenced my voice and denied me the opportunity for a fair hearing.

In essence, my experience with the Employment Tribunal revealed a system that falls short of upholding the standards of justice and fairness it claims to champion. Instead of serving as a beacon of hope for those seeking redress for workplace discrimination, it has become a disappointing symbol of institutional bias and inequity.

As someone who has navigated the complexities of the tribunal process firsthand, I urge for a critical reevaluation and reform of the system to ensure that it fulfills its mandate of providing justice for all. Only through meaningful changes and a commitment to impartiality can the Employment Tribunal regain the trust and confidence of those it is meant to serve.

Avoid Judge Russell like a plague at the East London Employment Tribunal. This judge blatantly lied to cover up a man, who harassed and abused me for 3 years.

Terrible. Biased, racially discriminatory. Absolutely appalling.
Leeds Employment Tribunal- Judge Susan Cox undermined, repeatedly interrupted my barrister to the point where she said ‘I don’t like your tone’ to my barrister- the only person of colour in the room. She was disgracefully unprofessional.
Obviously had not read the bundle, or the statements and refused to even try to understand the Microsoft program OneNote - a key part of my case.
Whole experience left me suicidal.

I worked at a company called Arcusfm. It was toxic from the outset and bullying was rife. Although I was having to deal with bullying myself, I was approached by other employees who were going through much worse, to the point of being suicidal. I decided to speak up and fully expect the company to deal with those in need, how wrong was. I then became the target of several managers in the business, high and low level, their sycophants and hr. It all got too much for me and i became extremely unwell. I had been on sick leave for nearly eight months and still no one at the company had contacted me to see how i was. They had an occupational health report and nobody had even read it. They just wanted me to go away. My grievance, which dragged on go four years, yes four years, eventually ended with my dismissal from the company. With no proper investigation lies from my manager, which they obviously believed and no reassurance in all that time, that there would be a safe return to work, away from those who caused me harm. Despite recommendations from occupational health and my doctor. They were only interested in protecting the management involved and the company. I was basically the problem. Since then i have sadly been contacted by many others going or gone through a similar issue. Shame on you Arcufm.

The system is set up for complete corruption. Refusing to give breakdown of decision then repeatedly refusing to give written reasons. How can 3 Judges sit through a hearing, make a decision, apparently based on points of law and refuse to share that decision?!. 6 months of Appeal courts for them to say won’t hear the appeal because you haven’t got written reasons even though you sent copies of the emails !!! No way to complain. No wonder the POST Office scandal has taken so long CORRUPT JUDICIAL SYSTEM throughout. It’s a farce

The BLATANTLY in Plain Sight CORRUPT ET Service VERY heavily biased in favour of the Regular Firms (and I literally mean 'Firms' in the Gangster/Mafia sense of the word) that keep the FAT Judges fed with a regular income and regular cases, as opposed to TRUE JUSTICE, for the one off individuals, who's entire careers, lives and wider families are totally and utterly devastated, not to mention the 1000's who eventually take their own lives as a result of the WHOLLY UNJUST and CORRUPT devastation which is inflicted, out of PURE GREED is FAR, FAR, WORSE than the recent Post Office Scandal by a country mile which has only been running for c20 years.

Only, nobody has made a 'docu drama' to expose the 100's of CROOKED Judges and equally CROOKED Corporate Legal Representatives, which feed the CORRUPT ET System.

It's HIGH TIME some crusading Investigative Journalists with as equally huge 'cahoonas' bit the leg on this one and seriously opened up the flood gates!

I would give the ET minus five stars if I could. It is irretrievably corrupt. My experience of this utterly disgraceful, corrupt entity is that it deliberately sabotages cases involving LiPs, and is ruthless in causing them maximum damage, in spite of that being an accusation that the ET regularly levies against those same LiPs. Dishonest judges can act with impunity to assist Respondents, sabotage fair access to the disclosure process, and award costs for reasons that defy fairness, justice and common sense. They can (and do) then write anything they want to in the judgment document to justify the aid they have systematically given to the Respondent, who will usually be a corporate entity with close ties to public entities of which the ET is one. My experience of the ET began in 2013, and is ongoing.

Judge struck out a case, awarded costs and deleted the judgment.

The Judges are corrupt and not to be trusted

Absolutely horrendous experience as a disabled litigant in person. Judges (x4) ignored my disabilities in a Disability Discrimination Case, colluded with my employer (who was also my healthcare provider, so my medical evidence was on THEIR documents! They refuted their own Dr's diagnosis and denied me justice for 4 years. I discontinued my case cos I could not take anymore deceit, collusion or abuse.

This was at the Northern Ireland Employment Tribunal. The human rights abuses were reported to all appropriate bodies and none cared, as they are all UK Gov funded.

I was totally character assassinated for telling the truth ...would I do it again of course! Horrible experience but the truth needs to be told about bullying and sexual harrassment in the NHS Ambulance Service...

In general terms don't trust the solicitors and barristers especially if they caused the situation to end up in an ET, in the process of taking a large amount of your savings. Don't assume the judges at the ET will have an unbiased opinion of you. The employer will have the upper hand in telling what ever story they want to put across and will control the bundle. You will be on the back-foot most of the time as their barrister for example can pitch and aim whatever questions they see fit to put you under extreme pressure especially when asking for a yes/no answer. Your employer and their staff will lie and lie and this type of perjury is not challenged or dealt with. Forget the fact if you are in a regulated industry group that regulator could care less about your well being especially if you have passed on information to them, including criminal activities. The ET is not fit for purpose will rob you of your life savings, enrich the mostly hideous (there are exceptions) legal so-called profession and likely to damage your life forever. The feedback is true for people who give the ET system 1/5 stars and really this should be 0/5. The system is broken, but was never constructed well in the first place, Lastly don't feel blowing the whistle or having concerns at work is going to be beneficial, most people who succeed in life including enriching themselves don't care for others unless they are with friends who share their own valves.

the purpose of the ET was to assist the general public in getting justice quickly and resolving employment disputes without involving highly expensive lawyers but this has turned out to be a joke. The Judges make a broad brush assessment of cases, usually supporting the employers and manufacturing evidence to support their decision. A decision is not based on evidence but evidence is manufactured and twisted to fit the decision.
The system is corrupt. The Judges manufacture evidence to help the employer and decide in their favour. Employers lie but the Judges ignore perjury.
The ET has destroyed my life and the only reason that I am writing this review is to warn others about the corruption.
Unfortunately, I can't give 0 stars but I would if I could.

The system is flawed.
1. Its has a bias towards information forwarded by employer particular nhs and does not question it. The Employer can destroy evidence and make any excuse and that is allowed. Ref Dr Chris Day.
2. The employer ie NHS can use unrestricted public funds for top Barristers and lawyers whist litigant often defends themselves ie inequality if arms. This is not the case in any divorces
3. No independent record of proceedings
4. The reason behind why the parties are at ET is allowed to be be not the reason why they are there ie whistleblowing for patient and staff safety
5. The outcome is predetermined. 97% loose. Those 3% who win initailly will eventually loose. That says it all.
The ET system is biased, corrupted and not fit for purpose

Employer didn't bother to investigate the actual allegations they made, had no evidence to support statements they put forward as fact to tribunal, failed to disclose documents they relied on, breached their own rules, breached employment law, removed evidence damaging to them from tribunal bundle, lied under oath, yet the tribunal allowed them to take full advantage of those things and sided with employer to find dismissal fair. Not surprising really as the judge failed to apply basic employment law such as 'burchell' and twisted everything to benefit employer.

I am an LIP against a huge company and their equally huge law firm. The Judge and the process seem to allow manipulation by the R’s. This is more about navigating the law by the R’s legal team to get off the hook by the R’s than being open and honest/truthful to have fair justice! The initial matter that I whistleblew/reported on (sexual harassment) lead to the retaliation I suffered has been agreed that it happened but the R’s deny liability for it! That’s rubbish. It was reported to them and they did nothing about it! My case is part heard. The R’s witnesses have clearly had their witness statements written for them and have been primed what to say. All of the R’s witness statements try to rely on an original outcome given to me by the R’s on the second report of this matter in Feb/March 2019 but this outcome was overturned as I escalated the matter up the food chain @GSK. Under questioning all of the witnesses were aware that my escalation of this matter was finally upheld and the harasser was removed from the GSK site by GSK’s insistence! A different outcome was provided to my fiancée and I by the R’s. There are other matters that the R’s have been trying to hide under Oath also! The R’s witnesses have committed perjury and so has the R’s solicitor as she has seen the evidence of this and various acts of retaliation provided by a DSAR release from the R’s/GSK. If GSK are saying that they are not liable for the sexual harassment on their site then why would they conduct so many investigations? Why would GSK approach the harassers 3rd party business partners to force the removal of the harasser and give us a written updated outcome in regard to this matter? The R’s GSK are guilty and if they get away with this then it’s a tragic example that will expose the ET process of being manipulated, biased and untruthful. The judge surely cannot allow the R’s to make an opening statement that they agree that sexual harassment happened in their site but do not accept liability for it if the matter is not argued/discussed in court? It’s a whitewash!

I’m a whistleblower. From the outset the judge was highly biased in favour of the respondent (a public authority). The judge went on to err in law and based the final judgement on erroneous evidence.

Not helped by the refusal to record proceedings (likely so that future appeals fail).

By the end of the preliminary hearing I wanted to take my own life due to the way the judge humiliated me.

This experience consequently retraumatised me and added to my worsening complex PTSD (which was started by my corrupt ex-employer).

The employment tribunal process is not fit for purpose and badly needs reforming.

Employment Tribunals are horrible. The judges don't have any interest in the employees side. Tribunal judges believe the lies, cover ups of the powerful employers and their representing lawyers. This is a day light robbery of human dignity.

Don't waste your time and effort unless you can fork out £1,000s for legal assistance. The employment tribunal's purpose is to protect businesses and corporations that treat their employees with contempt. ET Judge Bromige did not give an opportunity to present evidence detailing employer's nearly 2-years of abuse, bullying, harassment and discrimination. Employment Tribunal Judge James Bromige said it is disputed whether sickness absence was authorised, there is no dispute, disallowed to present evidence of sick note from GP. Employment Tribunal Judge J Bromige raised issue of not pursuing internal appeal, why would someone who was treated with contempt by their employer want to work for them again? Now on disability because of the extent affected by depression, anxiety, poor mobility, etc., prescribed antidepressants and painkiller medication, etc., to the present day. Was only starting to leave the house again, feels like a kick in the teeth, thought it would be straightforward and employer berated for their actions (or inaction, reasonable adjustments were ignored by employer on more than one occasion), obviously not. Employer forced to go back to work early, condition started to regress and had to start taking strong painkillers again after coming off them some months prior, followed every single one of employer's demands, forced to do strenuous activities when advised otherwise by several health professionals (told employer time and time again but ignored), now still have pain to this day, EJ Bromige did not think this is relevant. Employer forced to attend at least 4 meetings even though unsafe to drive, for both other road users' safety and own safety. Employment Tribunal Judge Bromige did not seem to think any of this mattered, he said health has not been raised as an issue but it was raised several times, unless it was not said in complicated legal jargon only a practising legal professional with 10+ years' experience could comprehend. Representative used several times to discredit by both ET Judge James Bromige and employer's defending barrister when representative's only action was to download ET1 form and then submit completed form, also that it is representative's fault for not researching and being concerned for health and wellbeing not wanting return to employer. ET Judge J Bromige raised issue of there being 12 days between ACAS certificate and submitting ET1, had to frantically call at least a dozen different organisations for immediate assistance with what to do next (at the time did not even know there was a form to complete), eventually had to complete form without any help, to the detriment of the case. Employment Judge James Bromige raised issue of disability being amended late, was not aware the nearly 2-years of torment is disability discrimination until sought advice from an independent organisation. From where this advice was obtained was explained, did actually contact organisation from the get-go for assistance and help with ET1 but organisation had no available appointments for several weeks (judge would have even bigger problem with ET1 being 4 weeks after certificate instead of 12 days, lol!). So dismissal was matter-of-factly disability discrimination (as soon as found this out amended form) but Employment Judge J Bromige did not think so. Do not know what the purpose of discrimination legislation is, particularly disability discrimination, it is all a façade, pretending to care about disadvantaged people.

Unless you're a barrister loaded with legal jargon ammunition, it is a losing battle. Then again, can't see a barrister struggling every day like some retail workers who are treated with contempt by management. It might just be an employment tribunal issue more generally in overlooking how employers treat their employees. Presiding was Employment Judge Bromige who was lovely and pleasant, though did feel had been lulled into a false sense of security at the end of it all. Admittedly, employer's barrister was also nice enough, alas, they had one job: to get the employer off the hook. Very sad times we live in, there must be 100s or 1,000s of people who have went through the same torment.

Sadly, the employment tribunal seldom delivers justice.

My experience has been as abysmal as the others, whose comments are repeated here.
My memories of the ET process will be chiefly those of witnesses dropping out, in fear of losing their jobs, a vital witness being warned not to appear and his statement with-held, written evidence and emails being concealed despite legal statements that everything relevant had been declared and threats of costs being made against myself.
These were based on legal assurances that I had no legal case, and that my case was vexatious and without merit when, in fact, my ex-employer had already had struck out of the record an email that clearly conceded their guilt.
The evidential hurdles are far too high too. To be told that there was too big a time-gap between my whistleblowing and the subsequent huge pay-cut of £1,000/week was particularly galling. The pay cut landed the very same month that my ex-employer learned of my whistleblowing, so it could hardly have been more tightly chronologically linked; yet the ET preferred to believe that the cut, (which continued for another nine months!), was "an accident!"
Overall, whilst the ET panel were impressive, the clear contempt for the process shown by my ex-employer and their team made the whole process a farce in my honest opinion.

There are no tribunal transcript, recording is a criminal offence … REALLY.

I accidentally left my mob on unaware until later that day .. the verbally aggressive and abusive ET judge was recorded.

During the course of the hearing I was too upset to realise how foul he was. When I listened … I was sick to my stomach, appalled and disgusted, who did he think he was.

I much later .. burned the record onto a CD , but have never heard that voice ever since that day of several years ago.

The entire ET and EAT system is beyond corrupt. I sat through lies sworn under oath, judge should be in prison for changing crucial oral evidence from complainant, writing a pack of lies and documenting statements in judgements whilst witnesses were not present and no statements were submitted.

My case (LiP) was successful 🤪

I’m a great believer in karma…