When is the deadline for appeal against an improvement notice to the employment tribunal?
The catalogue records a 21 days period from The date on which the improvement notice is sent to the appellant. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 21 days
- Trigger
- The date on which the improvement notice is sent to the appellant
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- Reg 14A(b) permits 'such further period as the Tribunal considers reasonable where it is satisfied that it was not reasonably practicable for an appeal to be presented within that period'. This is the strict employment tribunal 'not reasonably practicable' test, not the broader 'just and equitable' test used in discrimination claims. It is not routinely granted, the burden sits on the appellant, and ignorance of the time limit is generally not enough. Diarise as a hard date.
- CURRENCY WARNING. This is the post-6 January 2025 provision. Reg 14A was inserted by the Employment Tribunals (Procedure Rules) (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/1156), reg 4(6), replacing the former Schedule 5, rule 2 of the 2013 Regulations, which was revoked at the same time. The trigger wording changed: the old rule ran from the date of SERVICE of the not