Difficulties arise in tribunal if a representative believes that a witness has been vitally damaged under cross-examination, but the client does not. The representative may…
New advocates are often told not to say ‘umm’. This is good advice. ((Although the odd ‘umm’ does no harm and there is no need…
One of the important techniques in cross-examination is leading up to an important point with the right preliminary questions. The key is to place the…
Occasionally, it will be useful to know whether the tribunal were taken to a particular document in the bundle. This may become important if, on…
Except in discrimination cases, interest on tribunal awards runs from 42 days after the decision is made. Sometimes, however, the award is altered after the decision is made, following a review or appeal.
In that case, for the purposes of calculating interest the date of the decision remains the date that the original date was made.
A new edition of Employment Tribunal Claims: Tactics and Precedents will be published by LAG in Winter 2007.