Stressing over amending working document for tribunal by this PM

[alison222]

True to form ( from what I have read on here) the LA issued a working document late last night to the tribunal which ignores all the changes we requested to the statement at the end of March - despite them having acknowledged receiving them.
I have just been through it ( Thankfully its an electronic version!) and re- added all our amendments into it. Also last minute I received this morning my Private OT report but it is good as it adds ammunition to the things I am asking for.

Stuff has to be at court by 5.00pm today.
Would I be unreasonable to leave it to say 4.00 so that the LEA have no opportunity to respond further?

Also I was looking at the requirements from the Tribunal and it says that in all cases the LA is to provide to the tribunal what it understands to be the child's views about the issues in this case or if that is not possible the reason why they have not been obtained. - IS this in addition to the child views collected when they were collecting info for the statement in the first place? If so what happens if they have not done this as I have not seen this? Please tell me that this would not be struck out by the court as a result?

I am currently proof reading what I have written to ensure it makes sense.....

Yes you can leave it to 4pm but they can only take your amendments out if they agree them! Otherwise they have to leave them in for the tribunal to decide.
Yes child's views would be what is written on the statement about child's views

You can actually keep working on the working doc right up to the morning of the tribunal and the Tribunal Clerk will copy the last version on the day, so cases do not get struck out because working doc is not in on time.

Its called a working doc as its just that a version that the parties should keep trying to narrow disagreement on up to the last minute

Thanks for that - so as long as they get the OT report and whatever version I have today I can keep on working on the document itself?

That's good.

The LEA are dfinately playing games as the amendments that they left in as parents and not agreed were the ones from the time before ie November not March. Not that I plan on letting them get away with it

Yes sometimes if the Panel feel the parties have not done enough work on the working doc they send them out at the beginning to do a bit more work on it!

But all the reports etc have to be in so send them now so you are not stressing at 4pm!

You could write to the LA copying in the tribunal asking them to resend an up to date working doc asap please as they have forgotten to include your amendments.

As I only got the OT report this morning any amendments from that they won't have had anyway. I thought I would add both and note it in a covering letter to the tribunal that I had put in my amendments that they acknowledged on 29/03/12 in as they seem to have been omitted and that I have added the OT recommendations too. Thought that would let the Tribunal know that they are messing around. As this has to be copied to the LEA and other parties too I thought I'd do it all in one fell swoop.
What do you reckon?