During a hearing, evidence is presented in a fairly structured way. Each witness gives evidence and is cross-examined. Witnesses tell the story in chronological order…
Sometimes neither side is satisfied with the employment tribunal’s decision, and both sides want to appeal. A cross-appeal is basically just an appeal by whichever…
Tribunals often direct the parties to agree a list of issues, but they don’t always explain what that means or how you should go about…
It seems that quite a few of those who find this site are looking for help with deciding what kind of questions to ask their…
A chronology (see Writing a chronology) is useful in two ways: the document itself is useful, because it provides an at-a-glance summary of the key…
If you serve a questionnaire on the respondent, or ask them for further details of their response to your claim, send your questions by email…
There is now a useful discussion of privilege, including waiver (see previous post), by the President of the EAT in Howes v Hinckley Bosworth BC
Enforcement is often seen as a complex and legalistic process. It moves from the tribunal to the civil courts, and has all sorts of hurdles…
Tribunals occasionally direct that the hearing bundle is to be limited to a fixed number of pages. This is on the whole a good idea.…
Litigation is about convincing somebody of something. One way of doing this is to tell the person you are trying to convince what somebody else…