Core research

Searching tribunal decisions

Find Employment Tribunal decisions and understand why broad searches often work better first.

How search works

Decision search reads Tribuno's indexed Employment Tribunal corpus and returns source decisions that may be useful for professional research. Results depend on ingested source coverage, extracted text quality and available metadata.

Search technique

Start with issue phrases rather than fully pleaded legal arguments. Use filters as triage aids after you have seen the first result set.

Try phrases such as investigation quality, appeal fairness, reasonable adjustments, whistleblowing detriment, remedy or ACAS Code.
Broaden wording if you get no results.
Open source decisions before relying on a result.
Save promising decisions to a research file before memo drafting.

When results look weak

A weak result set may mean the query is too narrow, the corpus is incomplete for that issue, or relevant concepts use different wording in published decisions. It does not mean there is no legal issue or no relevant authority.