There is a tendency for advocates, consciously or subconsciously, to divide documents and authorities between ‘mine’ and ‘theirs’. ‘My’ documents are those that come from…
If you can do so without spending a fortune on photocopying or doing injury to your back, it is sensible to arrive at the tribunal…
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…
It is very common, in correspondence or orally, to need to refer to other documents, be they statutes, case-law or evidence. You will very rarely write anything that does not talk about other documents.
It is well worth thinking about how you do this. Writing something like “Such and such was laid out in the company’s policy” can cause problems. Often the policy will be long, and there may even be more than one. Your reader will have to search through pages of documents to find what you are talking about. Even a short submission of a couple of pages, will probably refer to a dozen or so other documents at least, so these problems add up quickly.
From time to time it is useful to send documents by recorded or special delivery.
There are normally two reasons to do this: dodgy opponents and important or urgent deliveries.
Many organisations have standard templates for documents. In particular any organisation doing significant employment tribunal work will almost always have a standard agreement to use…
Suppose that in the course of the hearing your client realises that an important answer given by one of the respondent’s witnesses can be proved…