Employment tribunal help please

[Bumble9665]

Actually i read the email incorrectly there is nothing at all from the original complaint or complainant at all and this person said oh harassed him....

[ULA]

It is entirely down to the other side as to who they ask to get witness statements from. Typically I would suggest that the witness statements will come from individuals who can support the arguments that the company is making to defend the claim.

[Bumble9665]

Thank you for coming back to me i really appreciate it.
i understand he is saying the dismissal was unfair and bias and that the claim was lies and not harassment and also he did not do the main/biggest part of the allegation but to have nothing off the person who put the claim in is shocking to me or off any of the staff he worked with these people are people he met during the investigation nothing from his line or area manager or anyone he knew personally or who knew details, back grounds or the rest of the staff there.
i suppose in time we will find out what its all about its just intriguing to me trying to find out what they are playing at because they haven't done anything right throughout...my oh through all his faults is a good honest man and this has nearly broke him and me part of me wishes we had stopped months ago and moved on but when your right (or at least we think he is) its hard to just lie down and watch people rip you to shreds and destroy everything you have worked for...

[ULA]

Going through an employment tribunal is a very stressful process and this is often more so when, as your partner is, you are doing it with no legal representation and the respondent has (I presume) an experience employment law solicitor representing them. As you said in an earlier post if some of these people are no longer working at the company or have been made redundant the solictor may not feel their witness statements would be reliable.

Whatever the reason, for the time being you will just have to work with the witness statements that have been exchanged and this is where the next piece of work comes in. Your partner will need to go through these thoroughly and start considering what questions to ask of the witnesses at the hearing i.e such as inconsistencies between what happened and what is contained in their witness statements, clarifiction of facts that they have stated if your partner knows then to be incorrect etc.

At this time give yourselves a pat on the back for dealing with what you have done to date, unless they decide to start negoitating a settlement, which they can do at any time, prepare yourselves for your partner having to attend a hearing. In the meantime try to do everything you can to be as best prepared as possible.

[Bumble9665]

Im back again...weve made a good start on looking at the witness statements and questions for them were not all finished but a good 75% done with less than 2 weeks to go but making good progress anyway oh has had a second email today asking if he wants to withdraw without any costs to him and that the evidence looks too good against him that when he loses they will request £10000 from the judge towards costs, now ive looked online but can't seem to see if a second request to stop the case is normal especially this close to the case?
now oh is having second thoughts (his anxiety is through the roof atm about going into court and worried they wont listen to him and make him look like a fool hes not stupid but the solicitors make a living through doing this and ohs strengths lie elsewhere) were going to have a conversation this weekend regarding it as his mental health is the most important thing to me but at the same time i think it could help in the long run for him to do it and hopefully win his case...anyway the question is is this normal for it to be asked twice? The person at acas emailed him earlier to say he was there if he needed to discuss his options which oh is doing tomorrow which hopefully should give us some more insight...

[ULA]

Requests to withdraw the claim can come at any time during the proceedings and they may ask more than once. So this is nothing unusual.