There will be a video hearing in the Employment Tribunal. The Respondent wants that its representative who is located abroad conducts this hearing from outside the jurisdiction
I would like to know the following:
Is it an automatic right or does the Respondent has to make a formal application supported by evidence to the Employment Tribunal to have permission that its representative conducts this video hearing from abroad?
Should the tribunal grants this permission only when there is no other possibility when the Respondent is located abroad or it has a witness who is located abroad because this in the case of the respondent who can if it wishes uses a representative which is located within the jurisdiction and not one who is outside the jurisdiction?
For the reason that this will cause me the following detriments:
I would like to know the following:
Is it an automatic right or does the Respondent has to make a formal application supported by evidence to the Employment Tribunal to have permission that its representative conducts this video hearing from abroad?
Should the tribunal grants this permission only when there is no other possibility when the Respondent is located abroad or it has a witness who is located abroad because this in the case of the respondent who can if it wishes uses a representative which is located within the jurisdiction and not one who is outside the jurisdiction?
For the reason that this will cause me the following detriments:
- There will be transmission of image and sounds of me outside the jurisdiction what I do not like
- The quality of the transmission could not be good because the huge distance between the United Kingdom and the foreign country from which the Respondent’s representative intends to conduct this hearing
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