Can a redacted bank statement be used as evidence?

[Soapie]

We are making a claim to an employment tribunal over a dispute on wages paid by an employer and have an ET1 and are awaiting a date from the Courts and Tribunal Service for the hearing. A bank statement would appear to be the best way of showing what had been received? We would prefer to maintain the confidentiality of other transactions on the statement. If a redacted bank statement was submitted as evidence, would it be sufficient proof or could it be easily challenged?

The amounts on the payslips received from the employer do not reconcile with the payments made into the claimant's bank account.

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If you redact it, how do you propose to show that the redacted transactions are not from the employer?

Assuming you can get over that hurdle, you may get by with a redacted copy, although I would definitely bring the original along to any hearing (with a couple of copies).

[2222]

I'd just say that this is an odd thing to have a tribunal hearing about. It's a matter of fact what you received. It's a matter of fact what was sent. If money has got lost in the banking system, it ought to be located and paid to you. If it was paid to the wrong account, then it was somebody's fault, which is again a factual matter. Surely, you should be cooperating with each other to determine what's gone wrong?

[Soapie]

Thank you for your replies. The Courts and Tribunal Service have issued an ET1 so I must assume that the contents of the claim are considered as legitimate matters to be considered. There is a dispute as to the hours worked, the payslip record and the absence of holiday pay. A way of demonstrating what the claimant has received would be to submit bank statements as evidence. The bank statements also contain other transactions which are not relevant to the claim and are considered confidential by the claimant.

The question that you ask in your first reply is the question that I have asked myself and not come up with an answer, hence contacting Legal Beagles to receive, hopefully, some guidance.