Ask the record.
Ask the Record is an employment dispute research assistant. Ask in plain English and get answers grounded in every published UK tribunal decision, with cited sources every time. Not made up — and not legal advice.
For anyone who's ever Googled “can my employer…” and wanted a real answer.
How it works
Three steps. Cited every time.
Ask a question, get a grounded answer, trace every figure back to the underlying decisions.
Ask
Type your question in plain English. No syntax, no filters, no learning the system first.
Answer
Ask the Record returns an answer with figures, distributions and context — drawn only from published tribunal decisions.
Trace
Every figure links to the underlying cases. Click through to read the decisions yourself.
What it can answer
Real questions. Grounded answers.
A spread of the kinds of research questions Ask the Record handles well — and what a grounded answer looks like.
Honesty about the limits
What Ask the Record can — and can't — do.
- Answer questions about published decisions, awards, durations, outcomes
- Find cases involving specific organisations, claim types, sectors, regions
- Search and explore cases across the public record
- Show tribunal outcomes by region and industry
- Understand end-to-end case journeys, timelines and outcomes
- Deep dive claim performance and award values
- Summarise patterns and trends across the record
- Cite the underlying decisions so you can verify
- Predict the outcome of your specific case
- Give legal advice — only a solicitor can do that
- Speak to live, in-progress proceedings (not in the public record)
- Make up cases or distort figures — answers come only from the dataset
- Return individual claimants' names or personal details in response to a direct query
- Aggregate sensitive personal characteristics (health, sexuality, religion) across cases
- Facilitate research about named individuals rather than institutions
More on our position on individual privacy → Read the principles statement
Where the answers come from
Same record. Same methodology. Just a faster way to ask.
Ask the Record runs on the same Intelligence Hub dataset — every published UK employment tribunal decision, structured. The same coverage statement, the same versioning, the same documented extraction pipeline.
Important
This is information. Not legal advice.
Ask the Record gives you information drawn from published tribunal decisions and UK statutory time limits. It is not legal advice and it does not establish a solicitor–client relationship.
For decisions about your specific situation, including whether to bring a claim, settle, or appeal, we recommend speaking to a qualified employment solicitor. The Solicitors Regulation Authority maintains a register of regulated firms.
Ask the Record has documented guardrails about individual privacy. It will not return claimants' names or personal details on direct query, aggregate sensitive personal characteristics across cases, or facilitate person-based research. These guardrails are how we navigate the tension between open justice and individual privacy — read more in our principles statement.
Ask the Record answers from the public record. It cannot see your individual case, your contract, or any unpublished material. If you give it information about your situation, treat that information as you would any chatbot — don't share anything you wouldn't write in a public forum.
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Intelligence Hub
The full Intelligence Hub — search, filter, browse the record.
Explore Intelligence Hub →yerty/tribunal-intelligence/methodologyMethodology
How the dataset is built. Coverage, accuracy, versioning.
Read the methodology →yerty/claimant-hubClaimant Hub
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