Employment Claims Rules 2017 · 2025 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Witnesses
21. Form and issue of summons
Feedback & supportA tribunal or the Registrar may, on the tribunal’s or Registrar’s own initiative or at the request of any party to the proceedings, by a summons in the relevant Form, summon any person —
to attend before the tribunal at the time and place specified in the summons to give evidence at the hearing and produce documents in the person’s possession, custody or control; or
without attending before the tribunal, to produce to the tribunal any documents in the person’s possession, custody or control that are specified in the summons.
The fee specified in item 5 or 6 of the Schedule is payable by the party requesting the summons on sealing a summons to a witness under paragraph (1).
Subregulation 1
A tribunal or the Registrar may, on the tribunal’s or Registrar’s own initiative or at the request of any party to the proceedings, by a summons in the relevant Form, summon any person —
to attend before the tribunal at the time and place specified in the summons to give evidence at the hearing and produce documents in the person’s possession, custody or control; or
without attending before the tribunal, to produce to the tribunal any documents in the person’s possession, custody or control that are specified in the summons.
Subregulation 2
The fee specified in item 5 or 6 of the Schedule is payable by the party requesting the summons on sealing a summons to a witness under paragraph (1).