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Subject Access Request (SAR) Guide

Your employer has emails, notes and messages about you that you have never seen. A subject access request is free, it has teeth, and it can surface the documents the other side would rather you never found.

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What you'll get

PDF GUIDE
How a SAR actually works
What you can ask for, what they must provide, and the response window. The bones of the right in plain English.
TEMPLATE
Wording you can adapt and send today
A SAR letter structured so it covers the categories that matter and triggers the response clock properly.
STRATEGY
How to use the SAR before a grievance or claim
Why timing matters. The strategic moment to send a SAR if you might bring a grievance, raise a complaint, or file a tribunal claim later.
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What you'll walk away with

What this guide actually does

01
Understand what you can and cannot ask for under a SAR.
02
Send a request that triggers the legal response window properly.
03
Know the exemptions employers commonly try to lean on, and which actually apply.
04
Use the response to inform your grievance, claim, or settlement position.
A note on AI advice

Why this isn't a ChatGPT printout

AI is good at summarising the law. It is not good at applying it to your specific situation, your specific employer's pattern, or the procedural choice that fits this exact moment.

Claimants email this account every week with replies they've drafted using ChatGPT. The replies are confident, fluent, and wrong. They escalate a defence that should have been kept narrow. Or concede ground the law would have given them. Or answer a question that hadn't actually been asked.

A prominent HR creator recently said "don't worry about your ET1, just get ChatGPT to write it." That is dangerous advice.

Every guide here is built from real case work, refined over weeks, and reviewed line by line. Same starting point a private client gets in a £500 + VAT initial consultation. Without the £500.

Why this guide exists

Solicitor-grade work, compressed

Each guide is built from the cases and questions that come into the firm. The same kind of detail a private client would receive in a £500 + VAT initial consultation, structured so you can use it at home, before HR escalates anything.

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