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Maths teachers, much to the frustration of their students, always say to ‘show your working’. They mean that it is not enough to get the right answer, you should also show how you reached it.
This is good advice in legal practice as well.
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 cases are very important to the parties and a great deal depends on what the tribunal thinks.
The natural human instinct in such situations is to try to figure out what the tribunal is making of the case.
To some extent this is very sensible.
Case management discussions by telephone are increasingly common. Here are a few hints to get the most out of them:
The best advice about deadlines is not to miss them in the first place. This particularly applies to deadlines that affect the tribunal’s jurisdiction, such…
When writing or speaking to the employment tribunal it is very useful to ‘signpost’ what you are going to say. The aim is to give…
In Lovett Ltd v Evans the EAT returned to the question of what makes a grievance under the statutory dispute resolution regime. Following a meeting…