There’s quite a common belief that employment tribunals don’t award compensation for future loss beyond 3 or 6 months. Other things being equal, this isn’t…
Cases aren’t won by boring the tribunal into submission, so try not to raise more grievances than you need to to found your claim.
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Respondents’ lawyers often say that they will apply for costs in the employment tribunal if the claim is not withdrawn or settled. Sometimes they say that they will apply for ‘up to £10,000,’ and sometimes they threaten even larger sums.
There will be a water jug and some plastic cups on the table that you sit at when you present your case in the employment…
This is a post about avoiding a certain kind of dispute with your employer, rather than winning it.
Section 11(2) of the Copyrights Designs and Patents Act 1998 reads:
Where a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work is made by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer is the first owner of any copyright in the work subject to any agreement to the contrary
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Employers can be careless about accidentally waiving privilege. If they mention the legal advice that they have received in their witness statement, they may have waived their legal professional privilege and given you the chance to demand to see the advice.
Sometimes when you ask a simple factual question, the witness doesn’t seem to want to answer it at all.
Sometimes, when you are cross-examining a witness, you get an answer that you are very pleased with: for example, if you want to discredit the witness, you will be delighted if he says something that be refuted by a document in the bundle. But try not to look too much like a cat pouncing on a mouse.
After the respondent’s representative has finished cross-examining your witness, you have the chance to ask some further questions arising out the cross-examination. This is called ‘re-examination.’