Employment Appeal Tribunal deadline
Employment Appeal Tribunal notice-of-appeal deadline guide
An EAT notice of appeal normally must arrive by 4pm within 42 days of the applicable judgment, reasons, order or other decision trigger. The trigger differs between those routes.
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At a glance
What this source guide covers
- Period
- 42 days
- Trigger
- The route-specific sent or dated judgment, reasons, order, direction or decision
- Direction
- Forward from the applicable trigger
- Counting method
- The trigger day is excluded and intervening calendar days count.
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- Example input
- 03/08/2026
Start with 03/08/2026 as the the route-specific sent or dated judgment, reasons, order, direction or decision. The calculator applies the trigger day is excluded and intervening calendar days count. and a closed eat office can affect the final day, and an arrival after 4pm is treated as the next working day. the current generic model does not yet encode the eat office calendar. before it shows the cited output and the checks that may change it.
Calculation basis
How the date is counted
The trigger day is excluded and intervening calendar days count.
A closed EAT office can affect the final day, and an arrival after 4pm is treated as the next working day. The current generic model does not yet encode the EAT office calendar.
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Exceptions and matter facts
- Use the written-record trigger where full reasons were not requested or provided in the required route.
- Reconsideration or remedy proceedings do not stop time. Extensions are exceptional and must not be assumed.
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