Once you have submitted your claim on Form ET1 to the Employment Tribunal Office covering the postcode area in which you work or worked there will be a validation process to make sure that various procedures have been complied with that the Employment Tribunal undertake.

If a claim appears valid and satisfactory you will receive, within a few days, notification of your Case Number and
details of how the case will proceed. You will find your
Case Number on the initial validation document you
receive from the Employment Tribunal ‘Acknowledgement of Claim’ (ET5) and on subsequent correspondence.

In England & Wales a Case Number is a 7 digit figure, followed by the year the claim was submitted, such as: /04, /05, /06 or /2004, /2005, /2006. In Scotland it is a 6 digit figure (sometimes proceeded with ‘S’), followed by the year the claim was submitted (as above).

If the Tribunal need to undertake some validation exercises, or ask further questions, there will be correspondence sent to you in which you will be given a ‘preliminary’ Case Number that begins ‘PA’. The Tribunal will need their questions answered before the final Case Number can be given.

You can register in with either; the preliminary ‘PA’ Case Number or the final Case Number. If you do not have either of these numbers at this time, register when you receive it.

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