Clerks are the people at the tribunal who handle the administration on the day of the hearing: they take your name when you arrive, collect…
When you think you must have seen all the ways there are to make a bundle inconvenient and annoying to use… along comes a new…
Getting familiar with the hearing bundle is one of the most important things you have to do when preparing to represent a client (or yourself)…
Sometimes you really have to complain to the tribunal about how the other side has behaved – in order to ask for costs, for instance,…
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…
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…
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…
This is a post mainly for law students volunteering for FRU, and others very early in their careers. Let’s assume you’re a brilliant lawyer. You…