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Guardian wins legal challenge over access to employment tribunal papers

The logo of EFG bank at its headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland
The case involved an employee of the London branch of EFG, a Swiss bank, which he claimed had unfairly sacked him. Photograph: Reuters/Alamy

Journalists should be provided with access to documents from employment tribunal cases even in the aftermath of a judgment, it has been ruled, after a successful legal challenge by the Guardian.

In a significant victory for open justice, the employment appeal tribunal threw out a ruling from a lower court that the costs of transparency would be too burdensome, and instead ordered that the Guardian should be provided with documents it had requested.

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