Anonymous Emails from Subject Access Request

GrannyKate

An employment judge would hear arguments for and against any disclosure at a Case Management Meeting prior to the ET. These are held in private with the judge sitting alone. The judge can make an order based on relevance of the documents to the issues in the case. This may include allowing redactions to remain but may not. The issue will be whether it is relevant that you know the name or role of the person sending or receiving the email. For instance, if there is a dispute about whether someone knew about an incident which is mentioned in the body of an email then it is obviously relevant to the case to know who the communication was sent to. If a document is relevant then there would need to be a very good reason for allowing redaction for instance personal email addressses rather than work ones may have been used - judge might agree to redaction of these but might order that actual names of recipient and sender are disclosed. Exchange of documents is done by parties not tribunal They are given so many days in theory to comply with judge's orders (however - don't count on the employer doing it in the time scale)