'Serial litigant' | The worker who has fought 54 tribunals in 10 years

Employment tribunals exist for a reason. They are there to give workers a fair route to challenge discrimination, unfair dismissal and mistreatment at work. For most claimants, bringing a case is a serious step, often taken as a last resort.

But in a striking judgment handed down this month, an employment judge has ruled that one claimant’s latest case should be struck out entirely after finding it formed part of a long pattern of vexatious litigation - and that it was his 54th tribunal claim.