Contact us

The Employment Tribunals have a public enquiry line to answer your queries, provide information about tribunal publications and explain how the tribunal system works. It cannot give you legal advice, such as advising you on your claim or response.

The enquiry line can only deal with general enquiries, and are unable to action correspondence as they do not have access to case files in order to provide a response.

Public Enquiry Line: +44 (0)845 795 9775
Minicom: +44 (0)845 757 3722

You should quote your case number if you contact the tribunal office by phone or in writing.

You must let the tribunal office know immediately if your contact details change.

If you have a representative (a person you ask to act on your behalf), all correspondence about the case will be sent to them. And you must pass any further requests for information through the representatives and not straight to us.

Contacting us by email

To email an Employment Tribunal, please click on the relevant office listed on the left hand side of this page. You should make sure you quote the case number in any correspondence and in the title bar of the email and send it to the tribunal office dealing with the claim.

Documents you send to the tribunal must be in a 'Word' compatible format. We will not accept documents in other formats. When we receive your email, we will send you an electronic acknowledgement. Do not send further emails or phone the tribunal office unless you have not received an acknowledgement within two working days of sending your email.

If you want us to communicate with you by email whenever possible, you will need to supply a valid email address. When you ask us to communicate with you by email you are agreeing that you check for incoming email at least once every day and that we may pass your email address to other people involved in the claim.

If we send any documents by email we will use enclosures using the software 'Word XP' currently used by our offices. We will send copies of non-electronic documents and documents which need a chairman's signature, for example a judgment, by post.

Hearing centres

You can view the venues in alphabetical order or search by postcode. You can also download a map showing where the office is. See Hearing centres.

Our Customer Service Officers can help you if you have any special requirements, suggestions about improving our service or if you want to make enquiries about observing a tribunal hearing. Telephone numbers for the Customer Service Officers can be found on the left of this page.

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