As of 13 August 2026, AI cannot prepare your response to an employment tribunal claim.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface gets you a draft, but you cannot verify it yourself. That is the catch.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the tribunal claim, ET1, tribunal correspondence and any response form or portal instructions, then note the exact deadline shown on the documents.
   2. Gather the employment contract, relevant policies, dismissal or disciplinary records, grievance records, emails, messages, meeting notes and documents relied on by either side.
   3. Write a dated factual chronology and mark each point as confirmed, disputed or unknown; do not fill gaps with assumptions.
   4. Remove unnecessary personal data, then paste the documents, chronology, respondent details and deadline into the prompt in separate labelled sections.
   5. Ask the chatbot to produce the allegation table and working draft, and save the output with the source documents so each factual statement can be traced back.
   6. Ask a UK employment solicitor to check the deadline, jurisdiction, legal arguments, evidence, wording and final response before anything is sent to the tribunal.

   Prompt

   You are helping organise information for a UK employment tribunal response, not acting as a solicitor. This is not professional advice. Using only the material I provide, prepare a clearly labelled working draft for an ET3 response or other response requested by the tribunal. Do not invent facts, evidence, dates, legal authorities or procedural requirements. Do not decide that a claim succeeds or fails. For each allegation in the claim, create a table with: allegation reference, the claimant's allegation in a short quotation or accurate summary, our factual response, evidence that supports our position, evidence still needed, facts that are disputed, and questions a solicitor should answer. Preserve uncertainty and identify contradictions instead of resolving them. Separate facts from legal issues. Flag any deadline, form, jurisdiction point, limitation issue, discrimination allegation, whistleblowing allegation, dismissal issue, remedy issue or procedural step that needs checking against the tribunal correspondence or current official guidance. Then produce a neutral draft response using only confirmed facts, with [CHECK] markers wherever information is missing or legal wording needs professional review. Do not include confidential personal data unless necessary. Materials: Tribunal claim and correspondence: [PASTE HERE]. Our factual chronology: [PASTE HERE]. Employment contract and policies: [PASTE HERE]. Relevant emails, messages and documents: [PASTE HERE]. Witnesses and what each can directly say: [PASTE HERE]. Organisation and respondent details: [PASTE HERE]. Tribunal deadline shown on the correspondence: [PASTE HERE].

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.