i have made a claim against my employer. The case is due to be heard mid July. We were meant to be exchanging witness statements on 20 June. Their solicitors have just been in touch to say they would like to change the date for exchanging witness statements as there are more documents they want to disclose (earliest they say they can do that is beginning of next week) and then producing another bundle will take them another week. I will also need to amend my witness statement to reflect anything that may come up in their new documents.
They have suggested a new date for exchange of witness statements : 1 July.
I want to be helpful but to be honest I am a bit frustrated by all of this. They have had months to disclose these documents. They are likely to produce a lot of witness statements whereas I will be producing two. I am a litigant in person they have a huge legal team. If I agree to their proposal I will be giving myself hardly any time to consider all of their statements and prepare questions etc. I also have to work whereas it’s their day job (so most of my work on it has to be done at the weekend /during annual leave).
I want to be helpful but not at my own expense. If anyone is familiar with the ET processes do you have any recommendations on what I can do? The obvious is to say no and suggest another date but how long should I give myself? I thought it was going to be tight anyway? I’m sorry I just haven’t done this before.