Civil Service Appeal Board
Last updated: 04 December 2009
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When the Secretariat has received your statement a copy will be sent to your former Department/Agency for their response. They will then have to submit their statement to the Secretariat within a given deadline.
The Department/Agency’s statement will contain all the facts which it thinks are relevant, and explain the reason for dismissing you. It will also contain copies of relevant documents they wish the Board to consider.
At the same time as the Department/Agency are asked to submit their statement you will be informed that the request has been made and given the date for your hearing. Copies of the Department/Agency’s statement will be sent by the Secretariat to you and your representative and you will have the Department/Agency’s statement for a minimum of three weeks prior to the date of your hearing.
If you want the Department/Agency to provide any other specific documents you should ask the Secretariat who will, in discussion with the Board, decide if they are relevant. If they consider that they are, the Department/Agency will be asked to produce them, and unless there is some special consideration of confidentiality they will be copied to you. Any request for documents must be made before your main statement of case is due to be returned to the Board.
If you wish to respond to the Department/Agency's statement of case this can be submitted up to 10 working days before the hearing. Any response that is forwarded on the 10th working day before the hearing must arrive no later than midday to allow time for them to be circulated. Anything received after midday will not be considered as having been received on time and, irrespective of the content, will not be submitted to the Board. New statements of case or further grounds of appeal will not be accepted. No documents will be accepted at this point as all documents should have been submitted with your main statement of case.