Awoke early this morning - 5.30 a.m. and spent the time before breakfast inserting Chronologies and indexes into the bundles. Michael R and I had a light breakfast at The Gypsy Moth before setting off in a taxi through the back streets of Croydon to arrive at the offices of the Employment Tribunals at 9 a.m. A long frustrating day. Without going into the boring details, the hearing has been postponed until March 2013 when it will be set down for ten days! However, we spent a whole day in and out of the Tribunal Room today on various interlocutory matters such as disclosure, timetables and so on. We are to have the case set down for a Judicial Mediation on Friday which is likely to be another long drawn out day. Although it was tempting to return home tonight, MCR and I have decided to stay on here in Croydon (after all, our hotel is paid up for the next three nights) and spend a day with our clients tomorrow in Leatherhead preparing for the mediation and dealing with some of the issues which arose in the tribunal today. Tonight we were entertained with a massive thunderstorm and took a taxi to Tai Tung Chinese Restaurant which is part of the Wing Yip complex just down the Purley Way. An excellent meal - I had crab with ginger and spring onion sauce - messy but delightful. We walked back along the Purley Way to our hotel feeling very full and quite exhausted. An enjoyable evening of witty story-telling. It is good to be back working with MCR again. Like old times when I ran Barratt & Company.
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