Thanks very much for the re assurance and the advice I am gonna do as much as i can to ensure we hurt this guy where it hurts him the most.... his pocket!! I'll look into the consequences also for what may happen if we lose, just so i can hopefully find something else to re assure me. I'm still a little worried that we could end up paying out because that is what the guy from ACAS told us. Do you know if i can still put witness statements forward at this stage? We received a letter stating a final date for this sort of information and this has now passed but i didn't think we would require them as all we needed to do was tell the truth! A little naive i know, i just hope the employment tribunal will still let us give them witness statements because there are plenty of ex employees that will back us up and some that have also tried to take him to tribunal but backed out (also probably due to his bullying tactics!). Thanks for your advice, really appreciate it

Can anyone help with this, we feel completely let down by ACAS and have no idea what to do now. Is there anywhere else that we can turn to now for support?

Hi I am looking for some advice for my wife. It is a really long story so I’ll try not to go on too long but in short, my wife worked at a hair salon and after she fell pregnant with our first child her boss basically made it impossible for her to work there so she left. This was back in January. We decided to take her boss to a tribunal for Constructive Dismissal and Sexual Discrimination. Since then it has not been easy and she has received nasty text messages from her former boss (he didn't use his phone but it seems quite obvious who they are from). We have been trying to get this sorted through ACAS but they have basically said that they can't do anything else because he will not settle the case out of court. They have said it is our word against his but the guy from ACAS said that he has a good case because he has a lot of written statements, from whom we do not know. ACAS won't tell us who these statements are from but how can we defend ourselves against this if we don't know? They are all probably current employees of his that will be too afraid to not write statements or his family members that work for him. How can statements like these have any credibility? I'm guessing that not many employers decide to settle out of court when ACAS try and arrange it but they try and use scare tactics and then settle at the last minute (a bit like the banks!!). We are now quite scared about the whole situation because it could now be us that get punished and have to pay the court fees and maybe even compensation to him. I really don't want to let the 'bully' win but it just seems like everything is stacked against the 'little people'! This guy has made our lives hell, especially my wife’s. She is too afraid to leave the house alone at fear that she may bump into this person and has even had to have counselling. He has ruined our pregnancy and at the moment it seems like he is going to get away with it. If anyone can give us any advice I would be really grateful. If you need further information or if you are happy for me to tell you the full story than please let me know and i'll do my best to include all the details. Thank You One other thing, I know we could also of produced witness statements from his former employees but I think we are passed the date for when they can be sent in now. Is there anyway around this?