Publications & Statistics

Publications

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 in 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

Publications

Please use ET1 (NI) revised April 2011 for claims where the matters you are complaining about occurred solely on or after 3 April 2011.

If the matters you are complaining about occurred fully or in part (even where the matters being complained about are ongoing) prior to 3 April 2011 you should be aware that the former statutory dispute resolution regulations as stated in Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 may still apply to your complaint. If that is the case, you should use the ET1 (NI) revised June 2009

Claim form ET1 (NI) revised April 2011 (PDF 82kb)
Guidance notes for ET1 (NI) claim form revised April 2011 (PDF 45 kb)

Response form ET3 (NI) revised April 2011 (PDF 179kb)
Guidance notes for response form ET3 (NI) revised april 2011(PDF 38 kb)

Claim form ET1 (NI) revised June 2009 (PDF 89kb)
Guidance notes for ET1 (NI) claim form revised June 2009 (PDF 74kb)

Response form ET3 (NI) revised June 2009 (180kb)
Guidance notes for response form ET3 (NI) revised June 2009 (PDF 757kb)

Annual Report 2010-2011 (PDF 650kb)
Annual Report 2009/2010 (PDF 800kb)
Annual Report 2008/2009 (PDF 672kb)
Annual Report 2007/2008 (PDF 398 kb)

Procedures

This booklet describes the procedure for making or resisting a claim to an Industrial Tribunal or the Fair Employment Tribunal in Northern Ireland, and what happens at a tribunal hearing.

Download:
Procedures booklet (PDF format - 471kb)
Procedures booklet Slovakian (word doc 973kb)
Procedures booklet Polish (word doc 448kb)
Procedures booklet Portuguese.doc (word doc 2,832kb)
Procedures booklet Lithuanian (word doc 1,692kb)

Minutes of Tribunal User Group Meetings

17.02.11 (word doc 74kb)
14.10.10 (word doc 62kb)
06.05.10 (word doc 50kb)
03.12.09 (word doc 67kb)
19.11.08 (word doc 46kb)
18.10.07 (word doc 55kb)
22.03.07 (word doc 50kb)
28.09.06 (word doc 66kb)

2005 Customer Attitude Survey
Download (PDF format - 405kb) Customer Attitude Survey

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