by skyshadowprimus » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:04 pm
So folks the day has been and gone....for amusement purposes I'm going to talk you through the day before going to the outcome...those who wish to know 1st please skip to the end of this post.
To set the scene this is a small court (informal so no wigs and jury etc) with a single judge, a panel of my solicitor and barrister and their solicitor and barrister. We then have rows of chairs at the back where witness's sit. As there is only me and some useless H.R. bint you'd imagine the seats to be empty. Hell no, the bunch of bankers have bought an entourage of Mariah Carey Diva like proportions with them.
8 people occupying the seats including their witness with notepads and pens at the ready, part of me thought this is likely an intimidation tactic as any other person would be like..."OMG I feel so overwhelmed"
Me I'm like....."Awesome an audience, and more salaries of staff getting wasted sitting down doing nothing thanks to me" so failure on point one
Well I'm up for questioning first by the worlds largest law firm and their barrister. To cut a long story short, I did excellent (of course I will say that, but as did my barrister) not one iota of my evidence was disproven by questioning, despite their best efforts as I'm fully able to hold my own.
As we leave the court for lunch their solicitors turns to their barrister and says in a very accusing tone "well that didnt go well...DID IT??!!" not realising that I was there...I take this as a good sign.
So we then break back from lunch and its this H.R. bints turn. Now consider they initially said they never employed me and it was a different company, this limited them to a massive extend on their evidence they submitted months ago. This woman's evidence was she had no involvement with me after I flew to Singapore.
In brief my barrister ripped her to shreds on the witness stand as she admitted her had no factual basis for anything in her statement and they went through and crossed out paragraph by paragraph everything she couldnt back up, when she tried to defend it my brief just kept up with the same line of "so what are you basing that on????"
End result was this woman retracting everything on her statement bar her name (and giving lots of evidence that supported me through doing this as) and as she was the only witness and couldnt argue ANY of my evidence, and as their barrister couldnt pull it apart..ALL my evidence was accepted as fact as it wasnt challenged.
We then moved onto the closing submissions which referenced in all the law...this took us to just over 5pm and a very tired judge. He has retired to consider the verdict and will notify us of judgement via the post. This could take weeks as it isnt just a "yay" or "nay" he has to write a "judgement" of why he is reaching that conclusions, and if posted this will need to be typed which could drag on for a while.
So in conclusions, all the facts have been heard, and we now have to wait for an answer to this stage, but all in all it went as well as it could have done for me, so I know that even if I lose, it will be on a point of law and not due to being bullied or railroaded by the other side which has made me feel quite good as it does give me some closure....
In other news I imagine this HR woman to be facing a grilling for the shambolic performance she gave with her evidence, she might potentially have been a scapegoat for this as the bank will **** on people from a great height if required....can't say I'll lose that much sleep over this to be honest....
As per usual...I'll update you folks when I get the verdict...could be hours...could be weeks
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