Good Morning, I'm hoping that you can help me with some general advise. I've been asked by a colleague to attend a disciplinary hearing with him (scheduled for this afternoon) which has been called because he used poor spelling/grammar in emails - both internally and to customers. The company have been very obstructive so far, in that they refused to rearrange the hearing (originally scheduled for last week) because they did not want me to be present with him. After pointing out their obligations under the Employment Relations Act 1999 they grudgingly agreed to rearrange for a date when I would be available - although my colleague had to escalate the matter to director level before this was done. He's had no previous warnings from his line manager about his spelling/grammar and it's never been flagged as a concern before - although they previously took him to a disciplinary for not following procedure (a different issue altogether) and I successfully helped him to have the matter dropped at the hearing as they had never informed him of the procedure. It seems they are simply looking for an excuse to get rid of him. He has been informed by the HR department that he faces dismissal if this complaint about his spelling/grammar is upheld, despite the first he heard about any issue being an "investigation" meeting held 2 weeks ago during which he was basically told his spelling was unacceptable and they would discipline him - not really an investigation! The biggest irony is that the letter giving the time/date of the hearing is riddled with errors - 3 spelling errors and 2 grammar errors that I have picked up on. Emails exchanged with his manager and HR have also contained lots of mistakes and typo's (from them) and to me the whole case seems farcical Just looking for some advise really as to how we should deal with this during the hearing - they're bound to go in all guns blazing as they did with the last hearing, perhaps more so because we pulled them up on a legal issue with refusing to rearrange the hearing. Any tips greatly appreciated. Cheers!.