Dictionary · All nine stages

Cracking the Code

Every definition is free to read on the site, and always will be. What £19.99 buys is a copy that is yours and the law underneath the words — the section or the rule a term comes from, and a link straight to it.

What you get

• The whole A to Z as a PDF — 467 terms, laid out to print
• The same as an EPUB — for a phone, tablet or e-reader, so it works on a train and in a waiting room with no signal
• The nine stage sheets — the terms you meet at each stage of a claim, laid out for A4. Thirty terms you can take to a hearing, rather than 467 you look things up in
• Commonly confused — 79 pairs that get used as if they meant the same thing and do not, side by side. Reinstatement and re-engagement. Without prejudice and protected conversation. Strike out and deposit order

The law underneath

• 306 of the 467 entries name the provision they come from — the section of the Act, or the rule of the tribunal’s procedure rules
• 383 live links — every provision is a link straight to its text on legislation.gov.uk, so you can read the words Parliament used
• Where there is no provision, the entry says nothing — a third of these terms come from case law, from contract, or from tribunal practice, and nothing has been invented to fill the gap

Kept current

• The Employment Rights Act 2025 is rewriting this vocabulary in stages, and buyers get the new version at no cost each time it moves
• 1 October 2026 — tribunal time limits become six months
• 1 January 2027 — the unfair dismissal qualifying period drops to six months and the cap on the compensatory award goes

This is general information about what the words mean and where they come from. It is not legal advice on your case, and nobody has read your papers.