Analysing the new UK Employment Tribunal statistics (March 2018)
09 March 2018Philip Henson
New statistics from the UK government show that the total amount of single claims in the Employment Tribunal in 2016 came to 16,870. The total amount of single claims in 2017 totalled 23,708. An overall increase of 40.53 %.
But let’s drill down those figures in more detail...
If you compare the period January to July in 2016 to the same period in 2017 you will see that the number of single claims is relatively similar - 9,712 in 2016 when compared to 9,851 in 2017.
But then the Supreme Court handed down the Unison Judgment ([2017] UKSC 51] on 26 July 2017, and that judgment brought about the abolition of the controversial Employment Tribunal fee regime. The floodgates were then opened and the Employment Tribunal litigation boom began.
Fasten your seat belt for a moment…
If we compare the number of single claims in August 2016 (1,456) to August 2017 (3,045) - the next month following the Unison judgment - you see an increase of a whopping 109.13%.
From then on, the upward trend continues. If we compare the number of single claims in the period September to December in 2016 (5,702) to the same period in 2017 (10,812) we see an increase of 89.6%.
Click here for the UK government's raw data.
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