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Tribunal Discovery
Published on: 06/08/2015
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Gareth Walls Partner & Head of Employment and Incentives Group, A&L Goodbody
Gareth Walls Partner & Head of Employment and Incentives Group, A&L Goodbody
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Gareth Walls is a Partner and Head of the A&L Goodbody's Employment group in Belfast. Gareth represents a number of local, national and international brands in business support, strategic workforce planning and high-profile tribunal matters. He also has significant experience advising stakeholders on complex redundancy, re-structuring and TUPE issues. Gareth is an accomplished commercial litigator with particular emphasis on procurement challenges and injunctive relief in the Employment context, as well as being a sought-after speaker on Employment issues in Northern Ireland.

The importance of being able to show contemporaneous documentation that either supports your case or undermines the other side's case in a Tribunal cannot be overstated.

One of the early steps that the parties must carry out in a Tribunal case is "Discovery". The process of discovery involves producing a list of all documents that are in the parties possession or control that are relevant to the issues that the Tribunal will need to consider to determine the case.

Documents are not limited to paper, but can include anything on which information can be stored or recorded. Consequently documents created on computer must be included, as well as video or tape recordings, emails, text messages, telephone records, photographs and posts

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Disclaimer The information in this article is provided as part of Legal Island's Employment Law Hub. We regret we are not able to respond to requests for specific legal or HR queries and recommend that professional advice is obtained before relying on information supplied anywhere within this article. This article is correct at 06/08/2015
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