Hi davuck, like you I am in the middle of filling in the form for a Case Management Discussion Agenda and I have been in tears with it. I am stressed out to start with, bringing my claims to Tribunal, and this form must have been designed for only Corporate Lawyers to understand. I have come to the same conclusion as you, fill it in to the best of my ability. I'm lucky in the way that I have a Union representing me and they will get a copy of this form, and suggest changes if necessary. But the whole business is really stressful, and I wish it was over. Good luck with your case.

Thank you so much for the reply, unfortunately I didn't have time to read it before the Appeal Hearing. I have informed them that I will be taking it further, my Union Rep was there with me and he was so much help, so much that the person holding the Appeal Hearing thanked him too as he had been a great help to her too. What she meant by that I'm not sure. She didn't give me an answer at the hearing, she told me it would be a little more than a week, so not to worry if I hadn't heard anything in the meantime. I have requested a copy of the notes and my union rep also has his own notes. I am prepared for anything. I told her I wished to be reinstated, but I don't really want to go back to that place, and I'm sure they don't really want me back, because of my health problems (I have MS and Restless Leg Syndrome), but I haven't had a day off sick in ten years, and my record is problem free. I was an extremely reliable employee. But I have to take the job if they offer it as a Tribunal wouldn't even entertain the case if I have refused a job offer from them and then took it to Tribunal for Unfair Dismissal.. But hey ho!, they probably won't offer the job. It's a stressful time, I will be glad when it's over, one way or the other. Going to hand my CV in now to another store, fingers crossed they won't mind too much when they ask why I left my last job...

Dipply I will be interested to hear how your sister gets on. I was dismissed 3 weeks ago (they call it gross misconduct). I had been employed by this company (retail) for 10 and a half years. Not one day off sick, going to other stores to help out when asked to do so, struggling through days when my MS and RLS (restless leg Syndrome) was affecting me. Still I never called in sick. Had a welfare meeting once because I couldn't take public transport to work, and my car had broken down, and my partner was away on business with his. The RLScould be particularly severe when I took public transport. In short, this Welfare meeting was very aggressive and was basically an interrogation ( a fact which I commented on at the time and so is recorded in the notes of the meeting). I was in tears at that meeting. So I know that because of my MS and particularly the RLS they wanted rid of me. So when I forgot to put bags of banking back in the safe one night, even though the shop was closed at the time and then securely locked, they had their chance. I have now been sacked for Gross Misconduct, after my manageress reported the bags still on top of the safe the next morning, when I had a hospital procedure scheduled and an operation 3 days after that. In short, I had a lot on my mind. So now I have an appeal meeting tomorrow and I am very nervous. I cannot go back to the job, my relationship has totally deteriorated with the manageress, and I am now signing on for Jobseekers Allowance for the first time ever. And I have 'dismissed for gross misconduct' on my employment record. Who will employ me now? And all I did was to forget something. No money lost, or stolen. It was all there the next morning. It has been understood in that shop for a long time that the manageress had a problem with me, but no one could figure out why. I have worked alongside this woman for over ten years, so for her to do that to me was incomprehensible to me, I just would have put the money back in the safe and given the person who left it out a right good lecture But both her and Head Office, for their own reasons, have jumped on this chance to get rid of me. But I have proof that they have contravened the Disabilty Act (now known as the Equality Act), as regards both my MS and RLS (the Welfare meeting ) , and I am taking my Union Rep into the Appeal meeting tomorrow. I am so nervous, and just don't know what to expect. Dipply I sincerelyhope your sister gets the result that she wants.