- Improving Your Success Rate
- Update/Intermediate *6 hours CPD
Consistently rated by delegates as "excellent" for over 10 years, this seminar is built on Jonathan's 25 years of practical experience of preparing and presenting Employment Tribunal cases for both claimants and respondents. Tribunals are not County Courts. Come and learn how to think like an Employment Tribunal instead. Packed with practical illustrations, this seminar will change your thinking and will definitely improve your success rate and your personal reputation with Employment Judges.
- How does an Employment Tribunal approach the hearing of a case? What do they want to know?
- How to make yourself an Employment Law expert and how to keep up to date
- What you need to know about written witness statements: Your words or those of the witness? Detailed practical guidance on drafting
- Contributory fault and duty to mitigate
- How to act for an employer who has an apparently "hopeless" case
- Advocacy and the likes and dislikes of Employment Judges!
- Detailed examination of the principles of compensation including practical tips on negotiating settlements
- Why a bundle of documents should be more than just a lever arch file!
- How to prepare detailed schedules of loss
- What are the "issues" and how to prepare skeleton arguments
- New written guidance of Calculation of Pension Loss 2003
- Practical explanation of Recoupment Regs
- "Old" and "new" Polkey - what is the difference?