Editorial and review policy

Who writes our guides

Our employment law guides are written and maintained by the Aricase editorial team. We are not presenting these articles as the work of a named individual solicitor or barrister, and we do not claim professional legal accreditation for them. They are carefully researched plain-English explanations of the law as it applies in England and Wales, written for workers rather than for lawyers.

We would rather be straight with you about that than dress the guides up with credentials they do not have. Their reliability comes from being anchored to primary sources, which you can check yourself, not from a byline.

Where our information comes from

Every substantive legal statement in our guides is grounded in a primary or official source, linked inline the first time we rely on it. The sources we use most are:

• legislation.gov.uk - the Acts and regulations themselves, such as the Employment Rights Act 1996 and the Equality Act 2010.
• GOV.UK- the government's guidance on tribunals, claims, pay and rights.
• ACAS - the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service, for procedure and the statutory Codes of Practice.
• The judiciary - for tribunal rules, Presidential Guidance, and published decisions.

Each guide lists its sources at the end so you can read the original for yourself. Where the law is changing or not yet in force, we say so and date the position rather than stating it as settled.

How we keep guides current

Employment law moves, and figures such as the cap on a week's pay and the Vento bands for injury to feelings are updated each April. Every guide carries a published date and, where it has been revised, a last-updated date. We review guides when the law changes and refresh the dated figures against the official sources.

We still ask you to confirm anything time-sensitive - especially a tribunal deadline - against the official source before you act on it. You can also work out your own dates with our free tribunal deadline calculator.

How the human check on your case works

Aricase has two parts: the guides you are reading now, and the product, where Ari helps you build your own case. On our Guidance Expert plan, the case Ari helps you build is given a human quality check before you rely on it.

We want to be precise about what that check is. It is a quality-control review of the work Ari has produced - making sure the case hangs together, that nothing important has been missed, and that the output is clear and usable. It is not a solicitor giving you legal advice, and it does not create a lawyer-client relationship. We never call our reviewer a solicitor, because they are not acting as one.

For anything that needs formal legal advice or representation, you may want to consider speaking to a qualified adviser. Our guide to employment solicitor costs explains the options and what they typically cost.

Corrections

If you spot something in a guide that is wrong, out of date, or unclear, please tell us through our contact page. We take accuracy seriously and will review and correct genuine errors. Because this area of law affects real decisions at difficult moments, getting it right matters to us as much as it does to you.