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…
Employment tribunal hearings are stressful, and lots of people become more compliant and suggestible under stress than they are normally. (Many people are scarily compliant…
Sometimes you need to get sacked, but you just can’t think of a really good act of gross misconduct. Here are some suggestions. Old-fashioned violence…
In Is this the best you can do? we emphasised the important of rewriting and editing. It’s easy to say that rewriting is important, but…
There is a Tribunal Procedure Committee, which drafts rules for tribunals. But the Committee only deals with the First-tier and Upper Tribunals; the employment tribunals…
Winston Lord was an aide to Henry Kissinger during the Nixon administration. Once, after Lord had written a draft report, Kissinger asked “Is this the…
A standard agenda for case management discussions is being piloted by three employment tribunal regions. If your case is being heard in one of those…
The law is often a bit weird, and it’s rarely quite how we would like it. But it is generally not an ass. So if…