Guidance regarding the reading of witness statements aloud in tribunals has been given by Underhill P President the Employment Appeals Tribunal. He believes that this "wastes the time of the Tribunal and the parties" without achieving much of value. He recommends rather that where necessary parts of statements e.g. technical passages be read aloud when necessary. This might also be necessary in elucidating statements made by unrepresented litigants. Individual tribunals will decide whether to take statements as read where the parties' lawyers wish for this.
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