Court room or soap opera? Employment tribunals aren’t as boring as they sound

Can you call the boss a ‘dickhead’ or argue that being called messy is harassment? Tribunal judges have their work cut out

Usually the forum for humdrum disputes over hourly rates and unpaid overtime – employment tribunals are not the first place you’d look for an eye-catching yarn.

But for dedicated followers of the tribunal service’s list, recent weeks have been a purple patch of zingers, with judges settling the kinds of rows that belong more in a soap opera than in civil proceedings.