From time to time the other side will interrupt you during your cross-examination or submissions. Not all interruptions are unhelpful. One common reason for interrupting…
HM Courts and Tribunals Service is currently trying to make more efficient use of their estate (i.e. the buildings they own). Historically, different courts and…
The employment tribunals have recently moved to dealing with unfair dismissal cases under the fast-track procedure that has been operating for some years in wages…
A few months back, Naomi wrote about Mehta v Child Support Agency, where President Underhill suggested that it was not always necessary for witnesses to…
I am running the London Marathon for the Free Representation Unit again. FRU is a good cause: we help about 1,000 people each year in…
Booking interpreters is one of the aspects of tribunal administration that can stumble. If you need a interpreter for the tribunal, you will need to…
As previously noted it is vital that appeals to the EAT are lodged on time and properly constituted (legal jargon for having all the necessary…
In general, typographers try to avoid ending a page with a short fragment of a paragraph or starting a page with the last small part…
Miller v Lambeth Primary Care Trust is the latest cautionary tale about the need to make sure that appeals to the EAT are brought in…
The format of a lot of advocacy, both written and oral, is to propose a conclusion and provide evidence or explanation to support that conclusion.…