Representing yourself at Employment Tribunal

hyubh

xapprenticex wrote: »

they took away the privilege of flexible working from home(i wish i had that) and reduced your hours because you couldn't travel to your own job and you take them to court for discrimination!!!!!

Meh, not sure the relevance of you personally not having a WFH option....

Gavin83

FBaby wrote: »

Do come and let us know how it went. On the face of it, from the little you've written, it sounds like you haven't have a chance in the world but I would hope there is a lot more to it.

Good luck tomorrow, and hope you get the outcome you are after.

I'll make a prediction here, I don't think the OP is coming back...

Iwanttobefree

While it was many many moons ago, when I was 19 (am now 53) I represented myself at a tribunal and faced the manager, 3 supervisors, 3 members of staff they had as witnesses, and they had a solicitor.

At one point their solicitor said words along the lines of "so you are accusing X of lying, Y of lying, Z of lying, A of lying, B of lying and C of lying"

To which I replied, "yes"

I won

The most daunting part of it that I clearly remember was I had obviously put everything down in writing in my application when I originally took them to a tribunal, at the start of the tribunal the judge type person (not a judge, but person in charge) asked me a few questions. I cant remember the details, but as soon as I started answering, he abruptly interrupted me saying words along the lines of "yes yes we know all that, you've put that in writing"

That really threw me and I can still remember the awful feeling I had today

But I won in the end so I'm happy.

Hounded_out

No reply from OP. What a shame given that some of the replies offered excellent feedback.

jobbingmusician

Yes, I have represented myself at tribunal, and at a tribunal where the tossing useless Union withdrew their representation as they felt I had less than a 51% chance of winning.

Yes, I won.

However, OP, your initial post does read a bit like 'the solicitor felt we didn't have a good answer to this question and so withdrew'. So make sure you have a bloody good answer to the question your solicitor seemed to find so difficult.....