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…
This week’s Lawyer of the Week in The Times is Phillippa Kaufman. One of the questions The Times always asks is ‘What was your worst…
Imagine an enemy posse rushing towards you. They are dressed in bizarre and elaborate costumes, including papier mache horns, cardboard armour and joke-shop Dracula fangs.…
Finding what you want in a hurry is a large part of conducting a hearing in an orderly way. Having to keep pausing in the…
Quite a lot of material presented to tribunals is illegible. There are good reasons for this. Many documents produced out in the real world are…
Intensifiers are adverbs intended to strengthen adjectives. For example, writing ‘very unfair’ instead of ‘unfair’ should suggest that whatever you are referring to is more…
The point of a witness statement is to say what happened – to the best of the witness’s knowledge, and to the extent that what…