About Yerty
Access to justice starts with access to intelligence.
Yerty exists to make workplace justice easier to understand. We build tools that help people navigate workplace issues, learn from the tribunal record and see how the system works in practice.
~12.4m
Workers estimated to face employer non-compliance each year
Resolution Foundation
~70%
Tribunal claims brought without legal representation
MoJ Tribunal Statistics
160,000+
Tribunal records in Yerty Index™
Yerty data
£200+/hr
Typical cost of an employment solicitor in England & Wales
Law Society / SRA
A system that happens in public
— and is invisible
UK employment tribunals operate in public, and their decisions are published on a government register that anyone can read. In practice, almost nobody does — because the record is hard for workers, lawyers, employers, funders, researchers and journalists to actually use.
Workers struggle to understand process, deadlines and options. Professionals and institutions struggle to see patterns across the system. A system can be public in theory and still invisible in practice — and that gap is the problem Yerty exists to close.
The way to improve a system
is to make it understood
A system that's nominally public but practically invisible can't be improved.
Employers can't benchmark against patterns they can't see. Researchers can't study outcomes that aren't structured. Journalists can't report on trends nobody's mapped. Workers can't understand what cases like theirs look like. Even the solicitors who advise on these cases work largely from anecdote and individual experience rather than the full record. Everyone is operating with less information than the public record technically provides.
We think the way to improve access to justice in employment law is to make it understood — by the workers inside it, by the institutions adjacent to it, by the researchers studying it, by the public holding it accountable. Understanding is the precondition for improvement: for fairness, for accountability, for genuine access. You can't improve what you can't see.
Yerty is a platform built on that thesis. One foundation — every published UK employment tribunal decision, structured and queryable. Two surfaces, for the two sides of the same system.
Two products, one foundation
Claimant Hub
Guided support for workers navigating a workplace issue or claim. Claimant Hub helps people understand what happened, what stage they are at, which deadlines matter, what documents they may need and what options they can consider.
Explore Claimant Hub →Intelligence Hub
Case-level intelligence from the Yerty Index™. Intelligence Hub helps lawyers, advisers, employers, funders, researchers, journalists and claimants understand what happened in cases like theirs.
Explore Intelligence Hub →Two distinct platforms. Both are reviewed for accuracy by practising employment solicitors. Both are honest about what the public record contains — and what it doesn't.
What we believe
Open justice should be usable, not just nominally public.
The UK courts have published tribunal decisions for years. That isn't bureaucratic accident — it's a commitment to the idea that justice should happen in public. Making the published record actually usable honours that commitment; burying it behind opacity, complexity or paywalls does not.
Understanding is asymmetric, and privacy matters.
Institutions have a larger public surface than individuals. Companies that have been to tribunal, the decisions that were made, the patterns across a sector — these belong in the public conversation. The claimants who walked through the system to get there deserve protection. We surface the former, protect the latter, and publish how we draw the line.
Honesty about limits is part of the work.
Most disputes settle and never appear in the record. Many workers never reach tribunal at all. The published decisions show what they show — and the rest of the picture, from settlements to deterred claims, is larger than what is measured. We don't paper over that, and nothing we build is predictive or determinative of any individual case.
The goal is not to replace solicitors, but to make the layer below and around legal advice work better.
Most workers don't need a solicitor on day one — they need to understand their situation, their deadlines and their options. When they do need one later, the work already done on Yerty can make that work faster and less costly. Solicitors are essential; they're also expensive, and most disputes never reach the stage that justifies the cost.
Founder note
I kept seeing the same thing: people with real workplace problems who didn't act. Not because they were wrong — because they couldn't see a path through the system. The law was there to protect them but the process to use it was invisible, expensive, and intimidating.
Then I looked at the other side — the researchers, the employers, the journalists trying to understand the system in aggregate — and they faced the same opacity from a different angle. Different audiences, same root problem.
So we set out to build the layer that should already exist: structure and visibility on top of a system that's been working in public all along.
Holly Rooney
Founder, RightsTech Ltd
What Yerty is — and isn't
Being clear about boundaries matters. Employment disputes are high-stakes; tribunal data is sensitive. People deserve honesty about what they're getting.
What we are
An information and case-building platform
Structured tools and guidance to help you understand your situation, follow the process, and organise your case. Every tool produces a specific, usable output.
A tribunal intelligence platform
Intelligence Hub structures published UK employment tribunal decisions into queryable fields, with a documented methodology and an honest coverage statement.
Built with qualified employment solicitors
A practising SRA-regulated solicitor reviews Claimant Hub content. The data side is built with methodological rigour and a published coverage statement.
Complementary to legal advice
Claimant Hub doesn't replace a solicitor for cases that need one. If you work with one later, the work you've already done makes their job faster and your costs lower.
What we are not
Not a law firm
Yerty does not provide legal advice, legal opinions, or representation. Claimant Hub gives you information and tools to decide for yourself; Intelligence Hub gives you data to inform your view.
Not a replacement for a solicitor in every case
Some disputes — complex multi-claim, serious discrimination, whistleblowing with ongoing risk — benefit from professional legal advice early. We say so when it's true.
Not the whole system
Intelligence Hub is built from published decisions. Settled cases, withdrawn claims, unpublished proceedings and many early-stage disputes are not visible in that record. We say that clearly because it matters.
Not neutral about access
We believe people should be able to understand the system they are part of. That belief shapes what we build. It does not change the record: Intelligence Hub is built from published decisions, with methodology, coverage and limits made clear.
Recognised by
Ministry of Justice LawTech
Engaged with the Ministry of Justice programme supporting innovation in legal technology
Justice Technology Association
Member committed to ethical, responsible legal technology
Thomson Reuters Institute
Contributed to research on technology and the employment tribunal access gap
Company
Yerty is a product of RightsTech Ltd (Company No. 16602847), registered in England & Wales. Founded 2025, with a single focus: making the UK employment justice system understood — by everyone who's in it, studying it, or trying to improve it.
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