Sources and coverage
Tribuno keeps Employment Tribunal decisions, ACAS guidance, statutory passages, tribunal procedure material and higher-authority case law in distinct source layers.
Tribuno provides Employment Tribunal research assistance and legal information only. It does not provide legal advice, representation, or guaranteed outcome prediction.
Coverage map
Each source family has a different research role. The product should be read through those boundaries rather than as one undifferentiated answer engine.
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Fact-pattern comparables
Tribuno ingests public Employment Tribunal decision data and stores source-linked records for search, detail review, research files, and memo source lists.
ET decisions help compare facts and reasoning. They are not binding predictions and may contain sensitive personal data.
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Process and workplace-practice context
ACAS Lens retrieves Code and guidance passages for disciplinary, grievance, investigation, hearing, appeal, and right-to-be-accompanied topics.
ACAS material is a separate source layer and must not be treated as an ET comparable decision.
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Legal framework context
Statute Lens surfaces reviewed statutory passages relevant to employment-law research questions and selected workflow context.
Retrieved statutory passages are starting points for checking the framework, not complete legal advice.
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Process and case-management context
Procedure Lens retrieves tribunal-process guidance for applications, hearings, evidence, case management, reconsideration, and remedy process.
Procedure material can change. Users should check source date and context before relying on a passage.
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Authority and principle context
Case Law Lens keeps approved higher-authority employment judgments separate from ET fact-pattern comparables and records citation provenance where available.
The Lens is not a complete legal research database and does not rank authorities by legal importance.
Provenance
Source-cited research is only useful if users inspect the source trail. Tribuno should make that habit easy.
Source trail
The public example is illustrative. In the workspace, source labels should stay attached to source family, research role, trace information and the user's check before a memo relies on them.
| Ref | Source family | Research role | Trace shown | User check |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | ET decision | Fact-pattern comparable | Decision title, source URL, selected paragraphs and why the decision was saved to the research file. | Confirm the facts, reasoning and procedural context are close enough before using the comparison. |
| L1 | ACAS Lens | Workplace-practice context | Guidance passage, source family label and promotion status separate from tribunal comparables. | Check the current ACAS wording and do not cite it as a tribunal finding. |
| L2 | Statute Lens | Framework context | Statutory passage label, source link and the workflow issue it is being used to frame. | Verify the current statutory text and any authority needed for the professional question. |
Check that the cited source is the decision, guidance or authority the memo says it is using.
Read nearby paragraphs or guidance sections to confirm the citation supports the point being made.
Keep tribunal comparables, statutory framework, ACAS guidance, procedure material and case law in their proper roles.
Open a sample report to see how source labels, Lens findings and caveats fit together.
