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i had a zoom hearing yesterday. Claim is against a prominent online company.
The solicitor for the Defendant came out with complete nonsense and I made him look the fool he was. Woefully unprepared.
What is odd is that he then asked the Judge to take into account his experiences using the website that is in question, stating I was in effect not being truthful, and the Judge said nothing, and then, he asked the Judge to take into account any of his own potential experiences on said site, and again, the judge said nothing - I am reading today that this sort of thing is completely unacceptable. The Judge should have told the man off for making such a request?
Further, during the solicitor's closing submissions, he disappeared off screen, pretty much at the end of those submissions. The Judge then excused himself to find out what was going on, and then I was ejected from the hearing. i was unable to get back in for the next hour, despite emails back and for to Court. Then the clerk of the court emailed me to tell me the Judge was happy to continue the trial on another date. and that the defendant solicitor can continue to make his submissions on this date! It seems wholly unfair to me, because he now has two weeks or longer to prepare his remarks, and I will not have the same amount of time to rebut them in my closing remarks. I also do not understand how this was all arranged without my being there, nor why the Judge is allowing them now more time to make submissions when they were done before they disappeared from the online meeting.
It all seems very fishy. Please advise me.
HTT.
The solicitor for the Defendant came out with complete nonsense and I made him look the fool he was. Woefully unprepared.
What is odd is that he then asked the Judge to take into account his experiences using the website that is in question, stating I was in effect not being truthful, and the Judge said nothing, and then, he asked the Judge to take into account any of his own potential experiences on said site, and again, the judge said nothing - I am reading today that this sort of thing is completely unacceptable. The Judge should have told the man off for making such a request?
Further, during the solicitor's closing submissions, he disappeared off screen, pretty much at the end of those submissions. The Judge then excused himself to find out what was going on, and then I was ejected from the hearing. i was unable to get back in for the next hour, despite emails back and for to Court. Then the clerk of the court emailed me to tell me the Judge was happy to continue the trial on another date. and that the defendant solicitor can continue to make his submissions on this date! It seems wholly unfair to me, because he now has two weeks or longer to prepare his remarks, and I will not have the same amount of time to rebut them in my closing remarks. I also do not understand how this was all arranged without my being there, nor why the Judge is allowing them now more time to make submissions when they were done before they disappeared from the online meeting.
It all seems very fishy. Please advise me.
HTT.
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