Tribunal Submissions Editing and Proofreading Services

Her submission runs to fourteen pages and tells the story in order, from the first meeting in March to the day she left. The decision, when it arrives, is organized around a numbered sequence of questions drawn from the statute the tribunal applies, and it goes against her at question two. Reading it afterward, she can see that she had a good answer to question two. She had never known it was one of the questions the panel would ask, because nothing she received before the hearing said the decision would be built that way.

The documents we edit for Tribunal Submissions

Written submissions and statements of case reach us first, and responses to the other side's submissions usually come with them. Applications, forms, and responses to directions follow, along with witness statements and supporting declarations. Chronologies and schedules of loss come to us often, together with exhibit indexes and evidence references. Requests for extensions or postponements and post-hearing written closing submissions make up the rest. Our editors work on the submission a panel will turn into numbered findings.

What the editing involves

A submission organized around the questions the tribunal has to answer gives a panel a document in the shape of its own decision. Each question takes its own heading, and an answer such as "She was an employee, and the pay records at tab 4 show why" appears in the first line beneath that heading, ahead of the supporting detail. A panel reading for the applicant's position on an issue should not have to infer it from three paragraphs of background. We do not know which questions a particular tribunal must decide. The applicant's own reading of the rules, or the guidance the tribunal has published, supplies those, and the headings follow from them.

Facts belong in one place and the inferences drawn from them in another, because a panel accepts or rejects each of them separately and material that mixes the two can be set aside together. A paragraph reading "he did not reply to my email of May 6, which shows he had already decided" holds a date the panel can check and a conclusion it may not accept, and separating them protects the date. Anything the other side has conceded or has not disputed should be marked as such, where the applicant believes that to be the position. The remedy asked for belongs in the words the applicant has taken from the tribunal's own rules or guidance, since a submission that succeeds on the facts and asks for something outside those rules still delivers nothing.

Confidentiality and the limits of our role

Everything you send us is treated in confidence, including case materials, evidence, and personal circumstances. We are editors, not attorneys, advocates, or advisors, and we offer no opinion on the law, the tribunal's powers, your prospects, or what you should argue. What we can do is arrange the submission so a panel can follow it.