Can tribunal clerical errors effect my appeal

Without digressing too much information. I've had to deal with a spate of ever-growing clerical errors from the Tribunal Services, the latest of which is as follows :

I submitted a further 18 pages of evidence two months ago. Last week I received my evidence back with all the pages unnumbered. Despite contacting them several times, they have still failed to address the problem.

If I go to appeal, will this be another excuse for the panel to adjourn my appeal again ?

It is worth submitting documents in PDF format and copying them to the tribunal and DWP. This has the advantage that pages cannot easily go missing, plus it saves you paper and ink

You can download a free word processing programme Open Office (its open source and free and it works ) This enables you to make PDF files from your document, in one click

Well you may prefer to send hard copies of individual pages but PDF has some advantages. Let THEM do the printing and expend the ink and deny them the chance to say pages were missing

That sounds like a good idea - have you done it and found that it worked?

it works very well. PDF is a conventional and very useful system as long as nothing in the 'rules' preclude
PDF and insist on hard copy then you can proceed.

Open Office is a well known programme and it works

If you can fax documents and the department and add to your file then sending a digital document as in PDF should be OK.

You can email PDF if you have the email address and you could send PDF within a CD to0. Presumably if you fax a PDF it would just print out as a document from the fax machine

I think it would depend on the fax machine. I don't know if modern machines will print documents that aren't simply copied in, but older ones won't.

Have you found that the DWP will actually accept the documents by email?

You can ask for their email address and if they wont play ball you could complain or more pragmatic would be to send a CD with the PDF on

Here it gets technical, you can either write on the CD with a pen with NI number name and date, or if you have one of those posh lightscribe burners you could burn an etched label onto the CD (beware though, all this adminIStrative knowledge and skills might be used against one ....I forgot that.... in the assessment of one's functional descriptors in IB/ESA

Well that last line is a bit tongue in cheek