What You Need to Know About Property Boundaries and Disputes
February 28th 2024 at 4:50pm
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Glossary of Terms
- Claimant
- The person making a claim
- Respondent
- The opposition in a claim
- Counsel
- Another term for a Barrister
- Litigant in person
- A person in a case who has no legal representation
- Early Conciliation
- A free service provided by ACAS to help people attempt to reach settlement without the need for Tribunal Proceedings. This service must be usdd before a dl>im can be made in an Employment Tribunal
- ET1
- The form used to start a claim in the Employment Tribunal
- ET3
- The form used to set out the defence against a claim in the Employment Tribunal
- Schedule of loss
- A document setting out a Claimant’s financial losses, such as wages and pension, which is used to work out how much a claim is worth
- List of documents
- A document listing all of the documents a Claimant or Respondent wishes to use in their case
- Joint bundle
- A set of agreed documents which have been indexed and paginated for use at a hearing
- Witness statement
- A Claimant or Respondent’s chronological account of events
- List of issues
- A document setting out the key issues of a case
- Chronology
- A document setting out a timeline, for example leading up to dismissal of an employee, setting out any issues that may have occurred
- Cast list
- A list of people who are involved in the case
- Case Management Order
- A type of order which sets out when different things should be done by, for example, exchanging witness statements
- Unless Order
- A type of order which, when made, requests that a party perform an action (such as providing documents) by a certain time or their claim/defence or part of it may not be allowed to go ahead
- Deposit Order
- A type of order which, when made, requires a party to pay an amount of money to proceed with their claim/defence where it is the Tribunalds opinion tdl> the case may not be successful
- Preliminary Hearing
- A hearing held (either at an Employment Tribunal or by telephone with an Employment Judge) to deal with issues arising from a claim
- Final Hearing
- The hearing at which the Claimant and Respondent put their cases forward and a decision is made by an Employment Judge
- Remedy Hearing
- A hearing held after the Final Hearing to determine how much a successful Claimant should be awarded
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