From Monday Employment Tribunal Chairmen will be renamed Employment Judges in accordance with the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. For representatives and litigants, the…
Litigation involves doing quite a few unpleasant tasks. Some are boring, some are emotionally bruising and some are just difficult. This is as true for…
Many organisations have standard templates for documents. In particular any organisation doing significant employment tribunal work will almost always have a standard agreement to use…
Employment tribunals tend to order that witness statements are to be ‘exchanged’ on a certain date. What is implicit in this is that there will…
Surprisingly many organisations routinely record telephone conversations. If you think that either your employer or another organisation – your employer’s PHI provider, for example, or…
A chronology is just a list of key dates. Writing a chronology will often be the first thing you need to do to start to…
Every claimant’s adviser will be familiar with the feeling of despair that can set in when your client arrives with several carrier bags – or…
Badly compiled bundles are a source of unnecessary stress and delay in the course of the hearing. There is a surprisingly large number of ways…
Suppose that in the course of the hearing your client realises that an important answer given by one of the respondent’s witnesses can be proved…