How to use your rights
This section contains step-by-step guides to using your rights. Follow the links below to find out all you need to know about making a discrimination claim. We also have information on using your human rights.
If you think you may have been discriminated against, you need to consider your options carefully. You may decide to bring a claim in court or in the employment tribunal, or you may consider that your complaint can be better resolved another way.
This section can help you in deciding whether to make a claim. If you do decide to make a claim, the following sections will assist you in working out how to do it.
The process of making a claim to the employment tribunal is quite complex. This section, guides you through what you need to do to take a claim to an employment tribunal, including the procedures you need to go through first.
The section that follows this one, called 'The employment tribunal process, explains what happens before, during and after the tribunal hearing itself.
This section explains what you need to know about the tribunal process itself, covering the kinds of hearings that are held, and what happens before, during and after the hearings. If your claim would relate to education or any service, you should see the step-by-step guides to Taking a claim to the county court (England and Wales) and to the sheriff court (Scotland).
Where someone has discriminated against you in providing goods, facilities and services or premises, you can take a complaint to court. The complaint cannot be taken to the employment tribunal.
In England and Wales, the court used is the county court. For claims in Scotland, see the guide to Taking a claim to the sheriff court.
Where someone has discriminated against you in providing goods, facilities and services or premises, you can take a complaint to court. The complaint cannot be taken to the employment tribunal.
In Scotland, the court used is the sheriff court. For claims in England and Wales, see the guide to Taking a claim to the county court.