{"id":1028,"date":"2009-07-01T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T07:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2009-07-26T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T13:15:48","slug":"online-database-identifies-serial-employment-tribunal-litigants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=1028","title":{"rendered":"Online database identifies serial employment tribunal litigants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img alignleft size-medium wp-image-1030\" style=\"width:149px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/business_12-300x296.jpg\" alt=\"business_12\" width=\"149\" height=\"147\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Business<\/div>\r\n<\/div>The Law Society Gazette &#8211; 18 June 2009 notes that a new website is being set up to record details of serial litigants at employment tribunals.<\/p>\n<p>The site will be at <a href=\"www.serial-\u00adlitigants.com\">www.serial-\u00adlitigants.com<\/a> (still &#8216;under construction&#8217; at date of writing &#8211; 1 July 2009).  It is being set up by solicitor Gordon Turner and barrister Damian McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Turner told the Law Society Gazette about:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. a serial litigant who has filed about 50 claims for age discrimination at tribunals throughout the country, including one against a client of mine. The litigant tells me he is earning good money because many employers prefer to settle rather than spend time and money defending the claim.  The irony is, the litigant doesn\u2019t even apply for the jobs \u2013 he just puts in the claim.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emplaw.co.uk\/webupdater\/1\/5\/2\">emplaw web-updater of 27th November 2008 <\/a>&#8220;The woman who netted \u00a3100,000 by making 22 claims of ageism&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business The Law Society Gazette &#8211; 18 June 2009 notes that a new website is being set up to record details of serial litigants at employment tribunals. The site will be at www.serial-\u00adlitigants.com (still &#8216;under construction&#8217; at date of writing &#8211; 1 July 2009). It is being set up by solicitor Gordon Turner and barrister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}