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Case research

Tribunal-decision research

Learn how to find, compare and verify Employment Tribunal decisions without treating another case as a guaranteed prediction of your own outcome.

What you need to know

Employment Tribunal decisions can show how legal tests are applied to particular facts, but first-instance decisions do not create a simple win-rate formula and apparently similar cases can turn on different evidence.

Useful research starts with the legal issue, checks the official judgment and records why a decision is relevant. Automated summaries and classifications should be treated as research aids rather than legal findings.

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Watch AI Case Research in action, from searching and saving Tribunal judgments to using AI analysis and the Argument Map to compare a fictional situation.

  • Search published Employment Tribunal judgments
  • Save decisions and explore AI-assisted analysis
  • Compare similarities and differences with the Argument Map
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What to do

  1. Step 1

    Define the issue before searching

    Search for the claim, procedural point or factual pattern you need to understand rather than looking only for a desired outcome.

  2. Step 2

    Use filters to narrow the evidence

    Combine claim type, employer, location, date and key terms where available, then compare more than one decision.

  3. Step 3

    Read the official judgment

    Check the source decision for the facts, legal test, procedural history and remedy instead of relying only on a summary.

  4. Step 4

    Record relevance and limitations

    Note which facts match, which differ and whether the decision is final, appealed or from a court that creates binding precedent.

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