Employment tribunals: Details of Claims templates & examples

This employee was selected for redundancy when in fact it was just a way of getting rid of her. She also found out that she had been getting paid less than an equivalent male colleague, hence the equal pay claim.

This ET1 extract gives you the particulars, or details, of the claim, which is the part of the form which is most important to get right.  Instead of trying to fit the details of the claim in the form itself, write ‘see attached’ and send the details in separately.  This gives you more scope to present the details of your claim to their best advantage. 

If you would like to use the details of claim below, you can freely download them and adapt them for your own use.

If you would like professional help to complete your ET1 claim form – and in particular the details of your claim – we can help if you wish.  Have a look at our fees for for this kind of work and get in touch if you want to proceed.

Having said that, many employees don’t really want to go to an employment tribunal with their claim and would be content just to get a fair settlement from their employer. Sometimes if/when an employer sees a draft of your completed employment tribunal claim application form, they will finally agree to a fair settlement because they don’t want the expense etc of going to tribunal either.  They also understand that you mean serious business.

In this employment tribunal claim form template example, the employee went off work with depression for a few weeks. When he returned, he was horrified to discover that the company had completely changed his commission structure.

As a salesman, this impacted his take home pay. When he flagged this up, they denied that it was done deliberately, so ultimately he had to issue this claim for disability discrimination (for damages to injury to feelings) and also breach of contract / unlawful deduction of wages (for the commissions lost).

Furthermore he felt he had no choice but to resign, so he claimed for constructive dismissal and for written statement of employment particulars (not issuing him a contract of employment) as well.

This template is presented so that you can download it and then adapt it for use in your own tribunal claim.  The contents are taken from that section of the ET1 form called Details of Claim (aka particulars of claim).  Most good lawyers – including us – always present these details on a separate page as they are so important, and in the form itself just write ‘see attached’.

We have written a short article on how to complete the ET1 form online, from start to finish, and you can see it by clicking here.  If you would like further help with your application, we can provide it if you wish.  Click here to see our fees for checking or sending an ET1 for you.

This employee of an events management company left her job voluntarily and then the employer decided to try to withhold her commissions. We got them back for her in the end though.

This ET1 template should be downloaded and then adapted for use in your claim. It is actually the particulars of claim, aka claim details, which the ET1 form asks you for. Just write ‘see attached’ in the form and send this in separately. That’s what most good lawyers do, including us.

If you feel that you need assistance to make your tribunal application as effective as it can be, take a look our fees for checking or sending an ET1 for you. For a lot of employees, their aim is to receive a satisfactory settlement from their employer before the case even reaches tribunal.

Even if you want to settle before the case reaches the tribunal, writing an extremely thorough and professional tribunal application will help to persuade your employer that their best course of action is to offer you a healthy settlement agreement figure.

This employee was of Arabic descent and was fired from a big recruitment company ostensibly because he was having an affair with a client but in reality it was just so his boss could take the credit for all his commissions!

This ET1 template should be downloaded and then adapted for use in your claim. It is actually the particulars of claim, aka claim details, which the ET1 form asks you for. Just write ‘see attached’ in the form and send this in separately. That’s what most good lawyers do, including us.

If you feel that you need assistance to make your tribunal application as effective as it can be, take a look our fees for checking or sending an ET1 for you.

For a lot of employees, their aim is to receive a satisfactory settlement from their employer before the case even reaches tribunal. Even if you want to settle before the case reaches the tribunal, writing an extremely thorough and professional tribunal application will help to persuade your employer that their best course of action is to offer you a healthy settlement agreement figure.

This employee had less than 2 year’s service, but when he was dismissed for ‘performance’ he brought a claim for unfair dismissal due to blowing the whistle on bad practice in a private hospital.

The ET1 claim form is the form you use to make an employment tribunal claim.  This template is a copy of part of our client’s ET1  claim form about the claim details (called ‘particulars of claim’) which can be downloaded and then adapted for use in your own claim. See our separate article for more information on how to complete an ET1 form.

If you feel that you need assistance to make your tribunal application as effective as it can be, take a look our fees for checking or sending an ET1 for you.

For a lot of employees, their aim is to receive a satisfactory settlement from their employer before the case even reaches tribunal. Even if you want to settle before the case reaches the tribunal, writing an extremely thorough and professional tribunal application will help to persuade your employer that their best course of action is to offer you a healthy settlement agreement figure.