Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Cambridge

Cambridge has two buildings that HMCTS lists for employment work, a county court and a magistrates’ court — and Cambridge jobs pay more than anywhere on this site except London.

Where a Cambridge claim is heard

The Cambridge numbers

Two local buildings, and post to Peterborough

Ask the HMCTS court finder for employment venues near central Cambridge and it returns two, both in the city: Cambridge Magistrates’ Court on St Andrews Street and the Cambridge County Court and Family Court on East Road. Both list employment among their areas of law. The magistrates’ court lists crime as well; the county court lists money claims, housing possession and family work.

Neither is a standalone tribunal building, and both give Peterborough addresses for writing to them. That is administrative, and it matters on exactly one kind of day: a deadline. Use the electronic route where there is one, and check which address a posted document has to reach before it goes.

Where your hearing is actually listed will be on the notice of hearing. The East Road court lists no public parking and points to the Park & Ride sites; both buildings list video facilities, which is worth asking about for a short preliminary hearing.

HMCTS publishes employment tribunal receipts for eight regions, none of them named for the East of England, and it no longer says which venue belongs to which region, so this page shows no regional caseload rather than guess one. The national figures are published: in April to June 2026 employment tribunals received 25,122 jurisdictional complaints and disposed of 11,232, with 100,338 open at the end of the quarter — roughly 8.9 quarters of work on that quarter’s disposal rate. That is our arithmetic, not a published waiting time, but it is the backdrop against which an employer decides whether a contested claim is worth the wait, and so part of what a settlement offer is priced against.

The magistrates’ court on St Andrews Street lists six interview rooms, level access to the entrance and courtroom, a hearing enhancement system by prior arrangement, and a witness service. It also lists crime and the single justice procedure, so expect a busier building than a tribunal centre.

Pay second only to London

The median full-time job located in Cambridge pays £876 a week. Among the cities on this site only London pays more. Against the statutory weekly cap of £751, that means the statutory redundancy formula discards about 14.3% of a typical Cambridge week before it starts — less than London’s 21.6%, more than almost anywhere else.

Unusually for a high-paying city, Cambridge residents earn almost exactly what Cambridge jobs pay: the two medians are within about ten pounds a week. In London, Manchester or Coventry the job figure runs far ahead of the resident one. In Cambridge the two describe the same people, so whichever you use, the statutory arithmetic comes out much the same.

Cambridge jobs also pay well above the East of England median, so a regional figure is not a fair description of a Cambridge wage.

If you worked for a Cambridge employer at a site outside the city, the figure that describes your loss is the pay of the job you actually did; the city median is context, not a measure of you.

Where the negotiation sits

For a 45-year-old with ten complete years, statutory redundancy on the Cambridge median is £9,012, because the week is cut back to the cap; twelve weeks of actual median pay would be £10,513. The gap is what the negotiated part of a settlement has to make up before it adds anything.

For unfair dismissal the compensatory award is capped at the lower of £123,543 and fifty-two weeks’ pay; on the Cambridge median, fifty-two weeks is about £45,557. How the two limits interact.

The flat £30,000 tax threshold covers fewer months of Cambridge pay than of pay in any city on this site except London, so the split between notice pay and compensation is worth checking line by line. Working out notice pay · how it is taxed.

Cambridge pay sits well above the statutory weekly cap, so the statutory figure is a floor and the negotiated part carries the weight. Run your own figures · how the total is taxed.

Common questions about Cambridge