Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Brighton

Brighton’s nearest employment venue is a tribunal building in Havant, nearly thirty-seven miles away — and Brighton pay sits almost exactly on the statutory weekly cap, a few pounds above it.

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Havant or Croydon

Brighton has no employment tribunal venue of its own, and the nearest ones are not near. The HMCTS court finder returns Havant Justice Centre on Elmleigh Road, nearly thirty-seven miles west, and Croydon Employment Tribunal, about thirty-eight miles north, almost level with it.

Havant is a tribunal building listed for employment and social security only, open 9am to 5pm Monday to Thursday and until 4:30pm on Fridays, with portable hearing loops and level access to every floor. Croydon is London South, part of the London tribunal system. The Croydon venue. Which one hears a Brighton case will be on the notice of hearing.

At that distance, the request worth making early is for a short preliminary hearing to be held remotely. It costs nothing to ask, and a day’s travel is part of what saying no to an offer costs you.

HMCTS does not publish which venue sits in which administrative region; the caseload on this page is the South East region’s, the one of the same geographical name, a reasonable reading rather than a documented one. If the case is listed at Croydon, the London region’s queue is the relevant one instead.

Right on the cap

The median full-time job located in Brighton and Hove pays £755 a week, a few pounds above the statutory weekly cap of £751. That is closer to the line than any other city on this site: Leeds sits just below it at £741, Birmingham just above at £761.

In practice the cap barely touches a typical Brighton week. Whether it touches yours depends on your own pay, which is why the calculator asks for it. Brighton residents earn a little more than Brighton jobs pay, £766, so a resident commuting out to a better-paid job is more likely to be above the line.

Brighton jobs also pay less than the South East median, which is a fact worth having if an offer has been benchmarked against regional pay. Run your own figures.

Three cities on the line

Because three cities on this site sit so close to the cap, they show what the cap actually does at the margin. On the same statutory formula a 45-year-old with ten complete years on the local median is owed £9,012 in Brighton, £8,894 in Leeds and £9,012 in Birmingham — within a couple of hundred pounds of each other, because the cap holds the two above it to the same capped week.

That is the point at which the statutory figure stops being an argument either way, and the negotiation rests entirely on the claim. What moves an offer.

The tribunal clock changed on 1 October 2026: an unfair dismissal claim now has six months from the effective date of termination where that date is on or after it, paused only by Acas early conciliation. Counting it.

Brighton pay sits just above the statutory weekly cap, so the redundancy formula trims a typical local week by a few pounds. Run your own figures · the time limit.

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