The Employment Tribunal Service will provide an interpreter if you or one of your witnesses doesn’t speak good enough English to give your evidence without…
That’s not as sarcastic as it sounds. Hearings are stressful and pretty weird, and cross-examining is probably the weirdest and most stressful part of conducting…
When you want to draw the attention of a witness – and everyone else – to a particular line in a document in the bundle,…
Tribunals and lawyers will sometimes refer to a ‘Judge sitting alone’. This means that he is sitting without the lay-members. This is common in case…
Occasionally one party or the other wants to play CCTV footage or audio recordings to the tribunal. I have two suggestions on this: 1. Don’t…
On the 25th April I will be running the London Marathon again on behalf of the Free Representation Unit. I have been involved in FRU…
A standard instruction that turns up from time to time in case management orders goes: Legal submissions (if any) shall be in writing and accompanied…
Many litigation lawyers have a weakness for sports metaphors. This is probably because litigation is in some ways like a competitive game. But there are…
Sleep on it. The problem with editing something you’ve just written is that you are too close to it. You will tend to see what…