Online Services

Online services allows you to make a claim or respond to a claim to the Industrial Tribunals and/or The Fair Employment Tribunal for Northern Ireland. You must register with the site in order to use these services.
A claim form, ET1(NI), is also available on PDF for downloading - see Publications.
This page also provides information on the weekly hearing schedule of the Industrial Tribunals and The Fair Employment Tribunal and the main decisions of these tribunals which have been issued since January 2007.

Making a Claim

Before going on-line to make a claim you may find it helpful to consider the following information which is available on this website:

Before making a claim
Information required for a claim
Statutory dispute resolution procedures
Getting help with the claim
Representation
Receipt of the claim
Further correspondance
Withdrawal of a claim

Responding to a Claim

Before going on-line to respond to a claim in which you have been named as a respondent, you may find it helpful to consider the following information which is available on this website:

Notice of the claim
Responding to the claim
What if I cannot make the deadline for a response?
What will happen if I do not send in my response or if the tribunal does not accept it?
Taking no further part in proceedings
Representation

Help

Adobe Acrobat Reader

In order to view some of the documents on the site you will require Adobe Acrobat Reader. The Adobe site gives instructions on how to install the viewer.

To view PDF documents you may need to download a free plugin called Acrobat Reader. The most recent version of Adobe Acrobat Reader includes support for screen readers (Accessibility) via the Microsoft Active Access API (MSAA). Download Acrobat Reader (external link)

Access version of Adobe Acrobat (external link) - enables vision impaired users to read Adobe PDF documents.

You will now be able to open up PDF files in your Internet browser. To print the documents click on the print button. To download and save files without viewing simply right-click the mouse cursor on the relevant link and then click 'Save Target As'.

Converting PDF documents to text

You can also convert Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents on-line into either HTML or ASCII text, which can then be read by a number of common screen reader programs.

Web-based forms submission tool - users can type the URL (or web address) of the PDF into an electronic form and select the "Get This PDF Document as HTML" button. The document will be converted on-the-fly to HTML and will be returned immediately to the Web browser. Convert your PDF via the web. (external link)

E-mail submission tool - users can submit the URL of a PDF file via e-mail to convert it to HTML or ASCII text. The converted results are returned in the body of a new mail message in a matter of minutes. Convert your PDF via e-mail. (external link)