{"id":62392,"date":"2017-08-01T01:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/workers-who-lost-tribunal-rights-should-have-the-chance-to-pursue-their-claims-letters\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T01:38:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T18:38:59","slug":"workers-who-lost-tribunal-rights-should-have-the-chance-to-pursue-their-claims-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/workers-who-lost-tribunal-rights-should-have-the-chance-to-pursue-their-claims-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers who lost tribunal rights should have the chance to pursue their claims | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere should be access to justice for those who could not afford hiked tribunal fees, writes Professor John Holford, the odds are already stacked against claimants, says Tony Greenstein and Unison is congratulated for fighting the case by Frank BurchillYou report that following last week\u2019s supreme court decision the Ministry of Justice will refund employment tribunal fees charged since 2013 (Employment tribunal fees scrapped after supreme court rules them unjust, 27 July). So it should; but it should go further. The court concluded that \u201ca significant number of people who would otherwise have brought claims have found the fees to be unaffordable\u201d (para 91): the fees were \u201cunlawful ab initio\u201d because they have \u201cthe effect of preventing access to justice\u201d (para 119).While those who paid the fees were indeed overcharged, it is those who could not pay who were denied justice. I think of a colleague declared \u201credundant\u201d (or, as she and many others thought, unfairly dismissed) 18 months ago. Faced with the fees, she dropped her case. What the supreme court has decided \u2013 in what you rightly call \u201ca triumphant defence of the rule of law\u201d \u2013 is that she and many thousands like her were illegally denied access to justice. It is they, above all, who need redress. The government should compensate them, set aside time limits and enable them to pursue their claims. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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