If your hearing bundle runs to more than one volume, divide the volumes at round numbers if you sensibly can – so, for example, don’t…
Even if it seems like a good idea to arrange the papers in the bundle in some order other than strict chronological order, it isn’t.…
Strictly speaking, if you are the claimant, it’s your case – so it’s your job to prepare the bundles for the hearing and provide copies…
Answer: It only has one side. Hearing bundles, and for that matter, all tribunal documents, are normally printed single-sided. There is an argument to be…
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.…
One of the difficult things about running a tribunal case for the first time is the uncertainty about what needs to be done before the…
First Law: Documents may be assembled in any order, provided it is not chronological, numerical or alphabetical.
Second Law: Documents shall in no circumstances be paginated continuously.
Third Law: No two copies of any bundle shall have the same pagination.
Fourth Law: Every document shall carry at least three numbers in different places.
Putting page numbers in a bundle is a dull job – and guess what? Nobody has to do it.
Chronological order – that is to say, date order – is the only way to arrange the papers in a hearing bundle. Anything else will be confusing at best, enraging at worst.
Witness statement should not be put in the bundle of documents.
There is a theoretical justification for this, but the main reason is convenience.