Employment tribunals normally expect witnesses to read their statements aloud. If the statements are very short, there’s something to be said for this: it gives…
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Witness statement should not be put in the bundle of documents.
There is a theoretical justification for this, but the main reason is convenience.
If you want to say in a witness statement that someone said something, just say that they said it.
This is advice often give to aspiring novelists. The idea is that your story will be more vivid if you let the characters of the people you are writing about emerge from their actions than if you just describe what they are like. When you write your witness statement, you are telling a story. Unlike a novel, your statement must be true. But ‘show, don’t tell’ is still good advice.
In an ideal world, witness statements would be ready days, if not weeks, before they had to be exchanged. There would even be lots of…
Employment tribunals tend to order that witness statements are to be ‘exchanged’ on a certain date. What is implicit in this is that there will…
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