Often you need to do substantial work the papers involved in the case before you are in a position to finalise and paginate your hearing…
In an ideal world, witness statements would be ready days, if not weeks, before they had to be exchanged. There would even be lots of…
All employment lawyers know that orders for reinstatement (getting your old job back) and re-engagement (getting another job with your former employer) are extremely rare.…
Once the tribunal has made its decision on a case, there is normally nothing left to negotiate.
The most common exception to this rule is where the tribunal’s decision is only on liability.
It is frustrating to win your case, but get limited compensation because you can’t convince the tribunal that you have done a reasonable amount to…
If you are trying to settle a case the day before the hearing, bear in mind that you cannot safely assume that the case is…
Until the tribunal hearing starts a good deal of your work will be getting in touch with people to ask them questions, send them documents…
It is becoming more and more common for parties and representatives in the employment tribunals to use laptops in the course of the hearing, and…
An American juror (quoted in Disorder in the Court by Charles M Sevilla, publ. Norton 1992.) said ‘That this system works at all is just…
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…