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Obstructions and sabotage of the Tribunal hearing transcript

When I received the judgment from Employment Tribunal Chairman Joseph Nuñez on 9 December 2021, it became immediately abundantly clear that this judgment was completely wrong. Mr Nuñez's botched and blundering approach reached lows never seen before. Another explanation could be that Mr Nuñez put his many "mistakes" in his judgment intentionally, possibly in an attempt to make me give up on my well founded claims against Entain.

During cross-examination, Entain's witnesses finally had to admit that I had indeed been bullied at work and that I was unfairly dismissed. This oral evidence was recorded via 2 recording devices. For my appeal in the Supreme Court against Mr Nuñez's ridiculous judgment, I needed a transcript from these recordings, the Judge did not want to listen to the audio-recordings. In Gibraltar, the Employment Tribunal does not provide transcripts of hearing recordings.

I did eventually get a transcript, but what should have been a very simple process, took 11 months to achieve. This is not normal, I believe that someone must have been pulling strings behind the scenes to block my access to the transcript and the evidence in it. This is perverting the course of Justice, a criminal offence. To understand why someone would risk all this, it is interesting to see what is in the transcript. What exacxtly does the Tribunal hearing transcript prove? EVERYTHING I needed, and much more, to prove that I was bullied at work, victimised and unfairly dismissed! Is this the reason why the transcript was so very hard to obtain? It proves that the Employment Tribunal Chairman was completely wrong in his conclusions, making Chairman Joseph Nuñez's judgment likely the biggest miscarriage of Justice in Gibraltar's history. Who ordered to brush my case under the carpet? Is this what GVC/Entain requested and Hassans executed this order without questioning it? Did Hassans use its strong links with Gibraltar's Government to do this? This link shows the evidence that was found in the Tribunal hearing transcript. This evidence shows that Entain wanted to win this court case AT ALL COSTS and without any moral or ethical considerations.

The absence of this Tribunal Final Hearing transcript at the Supreme Court Appeal was the reason why I lost that appeal. The perverting of the course of Justice was successful. So how did I finally get this trnascript? On 11 June 2023 I sent an email to the UK Government and Gibraltar's Governor to expose the shenanigans, obstructions and sabotage I encountered in my efforts to obtain the transcript. THE VERY NEXT DAY, a lawyer was appointed by the Registrar to represent me at the Court of Appeal and therefore a transcript became available. It can obviously be pure coincidence that I wrote to the UK Government and that the next day the impossible transcript problem was miraculously solved. But I don't believe in coincidence and miracles. Do you?

The following list of actions, and I am sure that I have forgotten to mention a few more of my attempts, proves that the absence of a transcript cannot in any way be attributed to me. “The system” has completely failed to provide the requested transcript, de facto blocking my access to Justice.

My efforts to get the audio-recordings:
- 29th March 2022, Preliminary Hearing in the Supreme Court, finished around 16h00 when the Employment Tribunal was already closed. Judge Yeats advised me to apply for a time extension for the filing of the Record of Appeal to include the transcript of the 17th - 28th May 2021 Final Hearing on Liability in the Employment Tribunal, resulting in the Judgement I am now appealing.
- 30th March 2022 11:07: First email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary to request a transcript of the Hearing.
- 30th March 2022 11:49: Email to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, to ask if the costs of transcribing Tribunal audio recordings will be paid for under the Legal Assistance certificate.
- 4th April 2022 12:30: First reminder email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary.
- 4th April 2022 12:33: Reminder email to the Registrar of the Supreme Court.
- 5th April 2022 14:08: Reply from the Registrar of the Supreme Court to inform me that under the Legal Assistance scheme there is no possibility to pay for transcripts.
- 5th April 2022 15:21: Reply to the Registrar of the Supreme Court re breaches of Human Rights.
- 6th April 2022 10:12: Email to Ms Debbie Garcia, Director of the Department of Employment.
- 12th April 2022 09:42: Reminder email to Ms Debbie Garcia.
- 12th April 2022 09:45: Second reminder email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary.
- 12th April 2022 13:53: Email from the Department of Employment management.
- 12th April 2022 15:50: Reply to Department of Employment management.
- 22nd April 2022 13:29: Reminder email to Department of Employment management.
- 22nd April 2022 14:28: Email to the Registrar of the Supreme Court to ask if he has a list of people who do transcriptions from audio recordings.
- 22nd April 14:43: Reply from the Registrar of the Supreme Court that he does not have a list of people who do transcriptions.
- 22nd April 2022 Preliminary hearing in Supreme Court for the lack of a transcript
- 23rd April 2022 Reminder phone call to Department of Employment management.
- 27th April 2022 7:35: Reminder email to Department of Employment management.
- 27th April 2022 9:15: Email from the Department of Employment management that they are investigating.
- 27th April 2022 9:39: Reply to Department of Employment management expressing my surprise that an investigation is needed.
- 3rd May 2022 Reminder phone call to the Department of Employment management.
- 9th May 2022 8:02: Reminder email to the Department of Employment management.
- 12th May 2022 13:24: Email from the Department of Employment management “By way of update I am informed that the Employment Tribunal will shortly be in contact with you directly in reply to your request.”
- 12th May 2022 15:28: First reply from the Employment Tribunal Secretary in 44 days, he informs me that the recordings for the last three days of the Hearing are missing. I am invited to hand over a memory stick. A list of terms and conditions is given, which I had never received before for identical requests.
- 13th May 2022 8:38: Email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary in which I complain that it took 44 days to get a reply and I repeatedly mention that there were two recording systems.
- 16th May 2022 around 12h00: I hand in the hard copy of my Record and Memorandum op Appeal. A copy is sent to Darren Martinez.
- 16th May 2022 12:49: Email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary to confirm that I had handed in a memory stick as requested.
- 16th May 2022 13:01: Email from the Employment Tribunal Secretary “I acknowledge receipt of your memory stick, and I am in the process of transferring the information for you. I will advise soonest as it is ready.”
- 17th May 2022 20:38: Email to the Employment Tribunal Secretary “Can you please confirm that the recordings you are copying on my memory stick are from BOTH recording systems which were used during the ten day hearing? This means that each hearing session was recorded simultaneously on both systems and so for each session there should exist two recordings.”
- 18th May 2022 10:43: Reply from the Employment Tribunal Secretary on my 13th May 2022 email. He mentions a technical malfunction so the last three days were not recorded but that still ITLD is trying to recover the audio recordings. No mention at all of the second recording.
- 18th May 12:33: Email from the Department of Employment management referring to the Secretary's email to me.
- 20th May 2022 11:21: Reply to the Employment Tribunal Secretary, mentioning both recordings.
- 20th May 2022 11:21: Reply to the Department of Employment management in which I ask to be informed of the outcome of their investigation.
- 20th May 2022: Reply to the Employment Tribunal Secretary that I will sign the “contract” with their terms and conditions although I doubt that setting terms and conditions is legally OK.
- 6th June 2022 12:08: Email from the Employment Tribunal Secretary that he has not heard back yet from the Chairman re recordings. No recordings have been handed over yet and the question about what has happened with the second recording was not answered.
- 9th June 2022 preliminary hearing Supreme Court, the transcript is discusses.
- 19th July 2022 The audio recordings for the Tribunal's Final Hearing on Liability from 17th - 28th May 2021 were handed over to me.

My efforts to obtain a transcript, after I had recieved the audio-recordings:
- 17th August 2022 refusal by Registrar to pay for the transcript
- 26th September 2022 Preliminary hearing Supreme Court about transcript
- 11th June 2023 I sent an email to the UK Government and Governor to expose the shenanigans I encountered.
- 12th June 2023 The next day, a lawyer was appointed by the Registrar to represent me at the Court of Appeal and therefore a transcript became available.
- 26th June 2023 hearing in Supreme Court hearing to present the appeal judgement
- 26th June 2023 The Legal Assistance Certificate was sent to the la>wyer appointed to represent me
- 16th November 2023 A quote for the transcript is sent to the Court for approval, the estimate is £20,000.
- 21th November 2023 The Registrar has approved the transcript production.
- 21th November 2023 Liaise with Registrar on quote approval
- 22nd November 2023 Request invoice from transcribers for Court
- 23rd November 2023 Raise internal invoice for court
- 24th November 2023 Send invoice to Court
- 29th November 2023 Chase Court for payment (Transcribers need payment on account before starting the transcription)
- 29th November 2023 Email from Court on payment
- 30th November 2023 Court querying details of quote provided
- 1st December 2023 Responding to Court enquiries
- 8th December 2023 Chase Court for payment
- 12th December 2023 Court refusing payment as per quote – various exchanges and telecoms
- 15th January 2023 Chaser to Court re payment
- 16th January 2023 Court requested amended invoice
- 16th January 2023 Request amended invoice from Transcribers
- 17th January 2023 Amended invoice received from Transcribers and sent to Court
- 18th January 2023 Court informs funds will be received 23/01/2023
- 23rd January 2023 Payment received and instructions given to transfer funds to transcriber
- 2nd February 2024 first transcripts are sent to me in electronic format.
- 21st February 2024 last transcripts are sent to me in electronic format.

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