# The Employment Appeal Tribunal (Amendment) Rules 2026, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Rules)
The Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993 (S.I. 1993/2854) (“the 1993 Rules”) are the rules governing the procedure in the Employment Appeal Tribunal.
Rule 2 makes amendments to the 1993 Rules as a consequence of amendments to the Employment Tribunal Procedure Rules 2024 (S.I. 2024/1155) (“the Procedure Rules”) made by the Tribunal Procedure and Employment Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2026 (S.I. 2026/115), which enables an employment tribunal to provide summary reasons for a judgment orally at a hearing and subsequently in writing where requested.
The amendments in rule 2 provide that an appeal from a judgment of an employment tribunal must be accompanied by written full reasons. They also amend Form 1 in the 1996 Rules to reflect this requirement and to remove redundant drafting. In addition, the amendments clarify that the time limit to institute an appeal starts from the date that the written full reasons have been sent to the parties, where written full reasons were requested within the relevant period specified by rule 60 of the Procedure Rules. Where written full reasons were not requested in time, an appeal must be instituted within 42 days from the date on which the written record of the judgment was sent to the parties.
Rule 3 specifies that the amendments made by rule 2 only apply to an appeal against a judgment of an employment tribunal made on or after the commencement date.
No impact assessment has been carried out for these amendments as no, or no significant impact, on the private, voluntary, or public sectors is foreseen.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2026/114/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/employment-appeal-tribunal-amendment-rules-2026/note
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