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Full articles in the series, plus shorter notes along the way. Newest first.

  1. · Trends in the tribunal · 2

    Disability in the tribunal: a viewer for 12,857 judgments

    Every disability discrimination judgment in the published register, the impairments relied on, and what the tribunal decided about each, searchable by condition, outcome and the part of the test that failed.

    4 min read

  2. · Trends in the tribunal · 1

    ADHD and autism in the tribunal

    How often ADHD and autism are relied on as disabilities in Employment Tribunal claims, how often respondents concede them, and how often tribunals find they meet the statutory test.

    6 min read

  3. · Assessing a claim · 1

    Local and cloud AI: what the difference means for employment advice

    Why some of the tools in this series run on a single desktop computer, what that gains and loses compared with cloud AI services, and where the line ended up being drawn.

    5 min read

  4. · Valuing injury to feelings · 2

    Injury to feelings: a viewer for more than 2,500 published awards

    Every injury to feelings award in the published judgments, searchable by band, protected characteristic and claim year, with a proposed figure placed among the awards tribunals have made.

    3 min read

  5. · Valuing injury to feelings · 1

    Injury to feelings: building the awards database

    How injury to feelings awards were extracted from every published Employment Tribunal judgment, using a pattern-matching pass, a language model running locally, and checks of every figure against the text of the judgment.

    10 min read

  6. · Foundations · 3

    Data protection and the judgments

    A not so quick word on data protection.

    4 min read

  7. · Foundations · 2

    Building the corpus: 134,000 Employment Tribunal judgments

    How every judgment on the Employment Tribunal register was collected, indexed and made searchable on a single desktop computer, and what the collection turned out to contain.

    7 min read

  8. · Foundations · 1

    AI in the Employment Tribunal

    A series on applying local AI to every published Employment Tribunal decision, and on whether a structured approach can stand up against the large commercial systems.

    7 min read