Do's and Don't's - writing a witness statement
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- In this video, I talk about the Do's and Don't's of writing your witness statement. We cover 4 "Do's" and 4 "Don't's". I hope this video helps you in your situation representing yourself at Tribunal. If you are on that journey right now, good luck!
⏲️ Timestamps:
00:35 - Do #1
01:00 - Don't #1
01:25 - Do #2
02:50 - Don't #2
03:45 - Do #3
04:20 - Don't #3
04:55 - Do #4
05:21 - Don't #4
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I am not a lawyer nor do I ever claim to be. This is advice based on my own experience representing myself in a gruelling 11 day trial with a cumulative 14 days in court and a full 2 years from case commencement to Remedy award. Read more about my case here: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/gp...
This came at the perfect time. Many thanks once again for your videos. They are great!
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I have a question… my et1 has been accepted and the respondent has requested an extension to submit their et3. I disclosed in the et1 that i have a covert recording of the discrimination that took place. The respondent has written to the tribunal requesting that they want a copy of my covert recording before they can respond to the et3.
Am I obliged to do this? Surely I can refuse to send a copy of the recording and only send 7 days before the final hearing right?? x
Thank you for your videos ❤ would be great to look at your case? Or did you want to remain anonymous which is completely understandable
I learnt something in every one of your videos. Thank you.
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Your video is extremely helpful in content and more so by your own presentation. Thank you!
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Wow that was really helpful
I'm glad!
That was great. Thank you! 😊
You're so welcome!
You need to mention a critical point about 'witness-statements', they have NO validity (even though signed-up) without the witness appearing in court in person. I descovered this to my cost in a civil case where I failed to call a witness to court (to endorse his statement), hence valuable information in his statement was set-aside (not given consideration) by the judge.
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Yes this is a very important point. It's covered in this video here: ua-cam.com/video/9fc8X17zpsU/v-deo.html
Currently agreeing bundle, respondents solicitor is refusing to accept documents we have created to clarify certain complicated issues (interpretation of psychometrics) and how this has been misused / introduces bias. They say if we create it , it has to go into the witness statement, is this correct?
No it absolutely is not. You may introduce any evidence you feel relevant. It's your case, not theirs. Worst case scenario you can agree to include your documents at the end of the bundle under a heading like "disputed" or "not agreed". They are not in charge of what the judge sees, nomatter how much they wish they were. Good luck, stay strong
Shall i include stuff even if it wasn’t in the ET1. I recently realised i wrote in diaries at work, i can probably get them to help me remind me of dates of what happened.
Yes add it all into your witness statement
My idiot witness backed out .. what to,do? I had put his name down on form.
1) don't panic! 2) the most important witness is you 3) don't worry, if the truth is on your side you just need to convey that to the tribunal panel.
if there is a lot of evidence and as such the witness statement will end up huge, how can this be possible as litigant in person to get through a big witness statement at trail?
You don't need to question them on the whole thing, just the parts you disagree with (where you are confident you can get them to correct the record via questioning). If you think a particular witness will have a very long cross examination just ensure you tell the Judge how long you need. Good luck!
@@beentheredonethat9647 sorry I meant where the LitinPerson has the long witness statement linking evidence, will the judge allow Lit to read it through since evidence needs to be presented in court and the court needs to hear in order to decide even though judge has a copy of witness statement before the trial the court still needs to hear it?
In my case I didn't read my statement out (also long). They had read it before the hearing began so it went straight into questioning
@@beentheredonethat9647 in my case, they deny all and have not given a defence on each point, just given a general defence, so in my statement I have to go over all of the points and refer to the law and to evidence because as I understand in a trial evidence should be heard by the court even though a judge may have read the statement in full the court still needs to hear it in order for a judge to decide upon the case.
I'm not sure what you're picturing but there isn't a jury or another group of people to convince. The tribunal is a panel of 3, 1 judge and 2 lay people (one with an employment background and one with a background aligned to employee's). That group will all have read everything before you start
Is your book a chat link broken ?
Yes, sorry, I've had to stop doing that it went crazy and I have 2 kids and a career
@@beentheredonethat9647 I get that . And same .. well your videos have been VERY helpful so thank you