Where can I find a report of an
Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) case?

• For any EAT case, you can see a transcript of the full judgement, produced by the EAT
• For significant EAT cases, you can see reports or brief summaries, produced by commercial publishers or other organisations

Transcripts of full judgements

• Judgements transcribed from full hearings since 1999 plus selected judgements from other hearings are online at the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) web site
• Many transcripts are also online on the BAILLI (British and Irish Legal Information Institute) web site, which includes some transcripts back to 1976, the year that the EAT began
• Transcripts that are not online may be purchased from the EAT

Reports produced by commercial publishers or other organisations

• If the judgement you need is a significant one, there is likely to be a report or summary of it produced by commercial publishers or by organisations with an interest in the subject matter of the case
• Reports of significant EAT cases are included in a subscription service called 'IDS employment law cases', at Bedford Central Library. This service consists of a set of volumes giving cases from the earliest ones up to 2001, with online access (by staff on your behalf) to cases from 2001 onwards
• Bedford Central Library also keeps a ten year back file of a series called 'IDS briefs' which includes reports of significant EAT cases
• Reports of significant EAT cases are also included in a general law reports series, 'All England Law Reports' (AELR), also available at Bedford Central Library, from 1972
• For the period up to 1985, you can try searching online for any reports of EAT cases that were published in 'The Times' newspaper. See the 'Times Digital Archives' at Newspapers online. At the 'Times Digital Archives' search box, enter the names of the parties in quotation marks, for example "smith v jones"

Brief summaries

• You may find an online summary of significant cases that are still relevant today by entering the case details in a search engine. As  always, it is preferable to use a source that is known to be reliable, such as those below
• Some organisations give online summaries for the subject area they are interested in. Some examples are the Commission for Racial Equality's employment law database and the Equal Opportunities Commission's case summaries
• Free summaries of recent significant judgements are available online as part of the ICLR (Incorporated Council of Law Reporting) site. See the 'ICR (industrial Case Reports) Express' or 'WLR Daily' menu option
• Summaries of significant cases may be found in substantial reference books on employment law, for example in 'Croner's Employment law', a constantly updated loose-leaf work available at Bedford Central, Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard libraries

Checking case reference details online

• Lawindexpro is a searchable database of cases of all kinds, including EAT cases, up to 2000. Case reports are available only to subscribers but there is a free 'Public search' facility available to non-subscribers. This can be useful for checking the identifying details of cases whose transcripts are not online, such as the date, names of the parties and the EAT reference

Further information

• See also Where can I see a report of an Employment Tribunal case?
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