A 15-page booklet, Guidelines for Presenting Cases to the Employment Appeals Tribunal, has been published by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. It advises on whether to settle or fight a claim and gives information on how to present cases. It has been prepared by Mr Bill O'Shaughnessy, a former civil servant at the Department of Labour, and Ms Patricia O'Donovan, deputy general secretary of the ICTU, and a barrister by profession.
Ms O'Donovan said the aim of the booklet was to give trade union representatives, and people taking their own cases, "a sense of competence and confidence that they can do as good a job as the solicitor or barristers they often find on the other side of the table".