Two recent cases on how Employment Tribunals should handle the inappropriate conduct of proceedings by claimants have shed some useful light on their more punitive powers. Both decisions made clear that the ET is far more interested in getting to a fair trial of the issue despite such conduct than in thumping claimants because of … Continue Reading
Forget the law for a moment and answer me this. If: despite having no reasonable grounds to hold that view, I genuinely believe that someone made a racist remark about me; and I sit on that belief without a murmur of complaint for four years; and when my work is entirely justifiably criticised, I then … Continue Reading
“Without more, to conduct a case by not telling the truth is to conduct a case unreasonably, it is as simple as that”. A difficult proposition to challenge, you might think. How much more fundamental to the reasonable conduct of judicial proceedings can you get than telling the truth? However, it is not so simple … Continue Reading