Comments on: What’s that noise…. http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/whats-that-noise/ Exclusively Employment Law Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:01:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John Robertson http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/whats-that-noise/#comment-1629 John Robertson Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:43:41 +0000 http://www.pjhlaw.co.uk/blog/whats-that-noise/#comment-1629 I would love to see a system in which ACAS was forced to look for non-financial tie-breakers to settlement: the dreaded "point of principal" that one of their conciliators told me that he always hated to hear. Research by Coventry University found that many people's motives for going to court were much more like people's motives for getting criminals into a criminal court, and much less about the need to settle financial differences that ministers seem to imagine. At the moment, lawyers are not in a position to say "I'm in this for for maximum winnings in very little time, and I've never worked for the firm we're talking about, but do you think the employee would settle quicker if you sacked Mr Ramsey who is running the kitche n?". That's what a lot of employment claims are really about. I would love to see a system in which ACAS was forced to look for non-financial tie-breakers to settlement: the dreaded “point of principal” that one of their conciliators told me that he always hated to hear.

Research by Coventry University found that many people’s motives for going to court were much more like people’s motives for getting criminals into a criminal court, and much less about the need to settle financial differences that ministers seem to imagine.

At the moment, lawyers are not in a position to say “I’m in this for for maximum winnings in very little time, and I’ve never worked for the firm we’re talking about, but do you think the employee would settle quicker if you sacked Mr Ramsey who is running the kitche n?”. That’s what a lot of employment claims are really about.

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