It’s a particular area of legal procedure and really you need good legal counsel to guide you through the process. The fact 1000 more pages have been disclosed since Feb goes to show no one did their job the first time around.
I hope I’m right in thinking same rules apply to Employment Tribunals in Scotland
https://www.justice.gov.uk/courts/procedure-rules/civil/rules/part31
31.6 Standard disclosure requires a party to disclose only–
(a) the documents on which he relies; and
(b) the documents which –
(i) adversely affect his own case;
(ii) adversely affect another party’s case; or
(iii) support another party’s case; and
(c) the documents which he is required to disclose by a relevant practice direction.
Duty of search
31.7
(1) When giving standard disclosure, a party is required to make a reasonable search for documents falling within rule 31.6(b) or (c).
(2) The factors relevant in deciding the reasonableness of a search include the following –
(a) the number of documents involved;
(b) the nature and complexity of the proceedings;
(c) the ease and expense of retrieval of any particular document; and
(d) the significance of any document which is likely to be located during the search.
(3) Where a party has not searched for a category or class of document on the grounds that to do so would be unreasonable, he must state this in his disclosure statement and identify the category or class of document.
It goes on a fair bit - but of interest is that each party has to make a statement of disclosure saying here is what I looked for, how we did it and to the best of my knowledge this is everything you need.
I’d love to know who signed off on that at Fife.