The Suffolk Fire Expereience - Doc 246 Harwich Fire Station Open Day

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Thompsons
Solicitors
CONGRESS HOUSE
GREAT RUSSELL STREET
LONDOM
WC1B 3LW
DX 35722 BLOOMSBURY
TEL 0171 637 9761
FAX 0171 637 0000
Fax 0181-546 5187

CDJ/WIGGLESWORTH/L98/60166

Mr A Wigglesworth
Lowestoft

By Post only

9 September, 1998

Dear Mr Wigglesworth,

YOUR CLAIM

Thank you for your letter and its enclosures which I have copied and which are returned to you. They clearly show that you are acting as a Health and Safety representative and have been accepted as so by the Brigade.

I appreciate your desire not to share the documents with the Brigade. However, I have a continuing duty to act not only for you but also for the Fire Brigades Union and to ensure that I do not incur costs on behalf of the union unnecessarily. The tribunal procedure requires that documents and witness statements are disclosed well before any hearing. It is inconceivable that Thompsons would ever enter documents at the start or during any hearing.

It is unknown and not possible for trade unions to recover any costs of a tribunal case and therefore early settlement if possible is in everyone’s interest. Failure to disclose good evidence, such as that provided, would not be able to be used in any hearing. Therefore, disclosure is in your interests.
I have sent copies of the documents to the County Council Solicitor and await his response. If it is unhelpful, then I will need copies of the minutes you have mentioned, copies of some documents that you have signed in your official capacity and also the names and addresses of the witnesses we will want to call to show that you are the Health and safety Represntative.


Yours sincerely


Craig Jones
For THOMPSONS