The third edition of Employment Tribunal Claims is now being printed. There are two ways of pre-ordering the book. Amazon is currently accepting orders at…
The Court of Appeal has handed down a short decision in St Albans’ Girl School v Neary declining to award costs against a claimant who…
In a complicated case, it’s worth saving all the statements on your side (and the other side too, if you have them in a suitable…
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,…