Employment Tribunal Claims: Advice and Representation

We deal with all types of employment tribunal cases including claims for:

• unfair dismissal
• disability discrimination
• whistle blowing
• sex discrimination
• race discrimination
• age discrimination
• sexual orientation discrimination
• religious belief discrimination
• all forms of harassment claims
• unlawful/unauthorised deductions from wages/pay
• breach of contract claims
• equal pay claims

Your case would be handled by an experienced employment tribunal litigation solicitor. We don’t use trainees, paralegals or other unqualified staff to do our legal work. This means you can be assured your case will be dealt with by an expert solicitor. For details about our team of solicitors please see Our People page here.

Yes, we act for many employees who have the benefit of legal expenses insurance. You will need to discuss this option with us, ideally before you make your application to your insurer. Don’t be put off if your insurer tries to tell you that you must use a solicitor appointed by them. In most cases you have the right to use the solicitor of your choice.

No, it is possible for you to represent yourself through all stages of a tribunal case. If your case is of a low value or is relatively uncomplicated this can be a sensible way to proceed. However, employment law and the tribunal procedures can be complicated so many people opt to appoint a solicitor to represent them professionally especially in high-value and complicated cases. Using experienced and specialist employment tribunal solicitors like Quantrills also helps to minimise the stress and anxiety of bringing a claim. As specialist employment law solicitors we will always make sure your case is presented and argued in the most legally advantageous way.

We will discuss and agree with you how much your legal fees are likely to be throughout your case. We normally work to agreed budgets for each stage of a claim and we check the value of your claim against the estimated legal costs. Your legal costs will ultimately depend on how much work we will need to do before your case is settled or heard at the employment tribunal. We will always strive to keep your legal costs as low as possible. We can do as little or as much of the case preparation work as you decide.

No, following a decision of the Supreme Court in July 2017, there are currently no issue or hearing fees payable by anyone who wishes to bring a case in the employment tribunals.

We will do our best to ensure your legal fees always fall inside any cost estimate or budget agreed with you.

Please see our pages on How to keep your legal fees under control and How we charge employees for our services for more details.

Yes, without any doubt we can. We routinely act for employee clients who are not local to Ipswich. Our clients come from all over the country. We are organised so that you can easily contact and instruct us online, by email and by phone, and there is always the post! You can book telephone meetings with us and email has made it so easy to correspond with us. By instructing Quantrills you will benefit from our truly personal service and expertise even if we don’t meet face­-to-­face.