{"id":595403,"date":"2026-05-21T02:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595403\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:11:09","slug":"unprecedented-employment-tribunal-delays-lead-to-five-year-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/595403\/","title":{"rendered":"Unprecedented employment tribunal delays lead to five year waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That enormously slows down the proceedings &#8211; and self-represented people are turning to AI for help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What we&#8217;re now finding is that a litigant in person, unsure of their rights because no-one&#8217;s helping them, goes to the internet and inputs it into an AI service,&#8221; says Glynn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They then get a voluminous case, bringing up every single possible claim there is, and every single fact that could possibly be in the person&#8217;s favour, and indeed sometimes also imagining those rights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now you have claims, which used to be, say, one or two pages long, that are now 30 to 40 pages long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And every time this happens the delays get longer because judges need more and more time to consider the claims being submitted to them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ELA is recommending a new dispute resolution body to cut the number of workplace disputes going to court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It wants the tribunal service to start using an AI model to evaluate claims, rather than expand them, and to split the caseload into different &#8220;tracks&#8221; depending on their complexity and their value.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simple claims could be handled by a legal officer of the court, rather than a judge &#8211; vastly cutting the time and expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That enormously slows down the proceedings &#8211; and self-represented people are turning to AI for help. &#8220;What we&#8217;re&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":595404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-595403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/595404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}