Employment and settlement agreement solicitors in Croydon

Croydon has the London South Employment Tribunal on its doorstep, and Croydon residents earn noticeably more than the jobs in the borough pay.

Where a Croydon claim is heard

The Croydon numbers

How busy the tribunal is

A London tribunal in Croydon

Croydon is one of the few places on this site with an employment tribunal on its doorstep that belongs to the London system. HMCTS lists it as the Croydon Employment Tribunal — London South — at Montague Court, 101 London Road, open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm and listed for employment only.

There is no parking at the building. HMCTS points to metered street parking nearby and lists two disabled street spaces directly outside; the hearing loops are portable, so ask for one in advance.

Because the venue is in London, the caseload behind it is the London region’s, the busiest of the eight HMCTS reports. The London page sets out the three London venues side by side.

The London region received 3,591 single claims in April to June 2026, more than any other region HMCTS reports, and the open caseload across all tribunals stood at 100,338 at the end of that quarter. A contested Croydon claim joins that queue. That delay cuts both ways: it is time you would wait for an outcome, and it is cost and uncertainty an employer would carry, which is part of why settlement is the usual route.

Where a hearing is actually listed will be on the notice of hearing; London claims can be listed at any of the three London venues.

Residents out-earn the jobs

The median full-time job located in Croydon pays £802 a week; the median full-time Croydon resident earns £856. Croydon is one of the few places on this site where residents out-earn local jobs, and by one of the wider margins, alongside Stockport. Many Croydon residents work in central London.

Both figures sit above the statutory weekly cap of £751, and the resident figure further above it, so the statute trims a typical Croydon resident’s week more than a typical Croydon job’s. Croydon jobs pay well below the London median, which is dominated by the centre.

The rule is the same as everywhere else: describe your loss with the pay of the job you are leaving. If that job was in central London, the London figures are closer to your reality.

If you worked for a Croydon employer at a site elsewhere, it is the pay of the job you actually did that describes your loss; the borough median is context, not a measure of you. The calculator on this site asks for your own pay for exactly that reason. Run your own figures.

What the numbers look like

For a 45-year-old with ten complete years, statutory redundancy on the Croydon job median is £9,012, the week cut back to the cap; twelve weeks of actual pay would be £9,630. For unfair dismissal, fifty-two weeks’ pay on that wage is about £41,730, the practical ceiling on the compensatory award until 1 January 2027. How the limits work.

Since 1 October 2026, an unfair dismissal claim has six months from the effective date of termination where that date is on or after 1 October 2026. Only Acas early conciliation pauses it. How to count it.

With the busiest regional queue behind the local tribunal, the time a contested claim would take is a real part of what any offer is priced against. How to negotiate a settlement agreement.

Because Croydon residents tend to out-earn Croydon jobs, the two local figures can point in different directions for the same household. Someone who lives in the borough and works in it may sit closer to the cap; someone who lives here and commutes in to central London is likely to sit further above it, and the statutory figure will understate their week by more. Run your own pay rather than either median.

Croydon job pay sits above the statutory weekly cap, and resident pay further above it. The London picture · run your own figures.

Common questions about Croydon