Preliminary Tribunal Hearing.

BoGoF

Take the money.

gomer

ACAS won't comment either way. They say they are only there to help manage my expectations and cannot advise me. I am representing myself.

gomer

I can't take the money. The 15 min deadline expired

Comms69

What is the claim you have???

gomer

See first post. Also failing to make reasonable adjustments

Comms69

gomer wrote: »

See first post. Also failing to make reasonable adjustments

I cant see it, and without being funny i'm not searching for it.


What is the disability? What did they not do? (which isn't automatically a discrimination case); and what did they do to actually discriminate?

A_Lert

Ask yourself this. If they think their case is so good, why are they offering you any money at all?


And their high-pressure tactics are an enormous red flag. Expecting you to decide on a settlement in 15 minutes is ridiculous and I would hope that, if it arises, any tribunal judge would agree it's ridiculous.


Fight your case.

nicechap

A_Lert said:

Ask yourself this. If they think their case is so good, why are they offering you any money at all?


And their high-pressure tactics are an enormous red flag. Expecting you to decide on a settlement in 15 minutes is ridiculous and I would hope that, if it arises, any tribunal judge would agree it's ridiculous.


Fight your case.

Because its often cheaper than winning and not being able to re-coup their costs of winning.  Imagine winning and then trying to reclaim costs from ex-emplyees who may not be working and diminished their savings waiting for months/ years for the case to be heard.

gomer

Well it's all academic now. The court just phoned me. There's no judge available Monday so it's been postponed until july or august. 

Undervalued

Happens all too often I'm afraid.
However it does give you the opportunity to get some proper advice on the merits (or otherwise) of your case.

Whilst costs are frequently threatened by the employer's lawyers they are not awarded all that often. But it can and does happen. Generally you would need to do far more than "just lose" for there to be any likelihood of cost being awarded against you. If you do continue to go it alone, then listen very carefully for any warnings / hints from the judge. It would be very unusual for an award to be made against a litigant in person unless they ignored the warnings or behaved totally unreasonably.

But, get some proper advice......