Is your dismissal letter defective?

Upload or paste your dismissal letter, redundancy notice, grievance outcome or settlement offer. We’ll check it against the ACAS Code of Practice and the Employment Rights Act 1996 and tell you whether you have potential statutory claims — with the exact authorities.

Strong potential claim

Moderate potential claim

Weak potential claim

Dismissal Letter Doctor

Is your dismissal letter defective?

You normally have 3 months less 1 day from the effective date of termination to start ACAS Early Conciliation. Don’t leave it.

Upload or paste your letter

We accept PDFs, scanned images and Word docs as well as plain pasted text. The whole letter, headers and all — we read what’s there.

Reading your letter…

Based on what we’ve read, this isn’t something we’d steer you towards a tribunal claim on. If anything in your situation has changed since this letter, get in touch.

Not legal advice. The Dismissal Letter Doctor highlights common procedural defects under the ACAS Code of Practice and the Employment Rights Act 1996. For complex situations, please contact us at

hello@startmyclaim.ai

or get a second opinion from a qualified employment solicitor. ACAS Early Conciliation is mandatory before issuing an ET1 and the 3-month-less-1-day clock keeps running.