Clerks are the people at the tribunal who handle the administration on the day of the hearing: they take your name when you arrive, collect…
The opposite of ‘unfair’ is ‘fair’. Not ‘not unfair’. So write “The Respondent has not shown a fair reason for the dismissal”, rather than “The…
When you think you must have seen all the ways there are to make a bundle inconvenient and annoying to use… along comes a new…
Getting familiar with the hearing bundle is one of the most important things you have to do when preparing to represent a client (or yourself)…
Often, while writing, you will leave gaps to fill in later. It is useful to have a standard bit of text, such as ‘xxx’ to…
Sometimes you really have to complain to the tribunal about how the other side has behaved – in order to ask for costs, for instance,…
The eighth edition of Tamara Lewis’ Employment Law: An Advisors Handbook has been published by Legal Action Group. It remains the best single volume guide…
We are working on the manuscript of the third edition of the book, which should be available in legal bookshops and from the publisher in…
Lots of things in litigation have to be done by a specific date, calculated by reference to some defined starting point. Often you don’t have…
This blog is really about handling employment tribunal proceedings. But it’s much preferable not to get into a position in which you feel you have…