Useful Information

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

Legislation

This page contains links to the main legislation under which the tribunals are bound. It is important that you check all relevant amendments.

Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011

Statutory Rule 2004 No. 521
Employment (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 (Dispute Resolution) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rule 2011 No. 159 (C.8)
The Employment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (Commencement No. 1, Transitional Provisions and Savings) Order (Northern Ireland) 2011

Statutory Rule 2011 No. 161
The Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) (Amendment)
Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Amendment SR 2005 No 376 commenced 31 August 2005
Amendment no 2 SR 2005 No 578 commenced 31 December 2005

Statutory Rule 2005 No. 150
The Industrial Tribunals (Constitution and Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

1996 No. 1919 (N.I. 16) (revised)
The Employment Rights (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

1996 No. 1921 (N.I. 18) (revised)
The Industrial Tribunals (Northern Ireland) Order 1996

2004 No. 3078 (N.I. 19) (revised)
The Employment Relations (Northern Ireland) Order 2004

Statutory Rule 2011 No. 162
The Fair Employment Tribunal (Rules of Procedure) (Amendment)
Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Correction SR 2005 No 151
Amendment SR 2005 No 579 commenced 31 December 2005

Statutory Rule 2005 No. 151
The Fair Employment Tribunal (Rules of Procedure) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

1998 No. 3162 (N.I. 21) (revised)
The Fair Employment and Treatment (Northern Ireland) Order 1998

NI Legislation
OPSI
The UK Statute Law Database