Reposting this so it is at the beginning of this thread:
I have a bit of Tribunal experience (but not employment law and not Scotland) and I thought people may find the following links/explanations useful when understanding how it all works.
The Employment Tribunal is there to establish facts, if there are any facts that are not agreed between the parties, and to hear the view of the relevant law from both sides, and then to decide which is the relevant law to apply to the facts as they are agreed or as the Tribunal has decided.
For example. It is an agreed fact that SP was suspended. It is a contested fact whether the 'resus patient' incident happened.
This is very important because as a general rule, once the ET has found the facts, you can't generally appeal those to a higher court. You can appeal to a higher court on a point of law. The only way to appeal facts to a higher court is a very high bar of 'no reasonable Tribunal could have found those facts'.
Some of the evidence will therefore be irrelevant because it is only the law relating to the actual appeal that will be decided upon. But some of it is useful in deciding how much weight to give to any individual person's evidence.
Once the judgement has been given, as mentioned above, only the points of law can be appealed. A judge has to give permission for the appeal to be allowed.
Employment Tribunal Procedure rules can be found here:
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2024/1155/contents/made
Various directions and guidance specific to Scotland can be found here:
https://www.judiciary.uk/guidance-and-resources/directions-for-employment-tribunals-scotland/#practice
This includes guidance on transcripts and who can apply for them.
Further guidance and costs on requesting a transcript is here:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/order-a-transcript-of-court-or-tribunal-proceedings-form-ex107/guidance-for-requesting-a-transcript
It is possible to request a transcript for all, or only some, of the proceedings.