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https://www.tayloremmet.co.uk/blogs/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/TE.jpg400400HR and people managers who regularly deal with disciplinary and grievance issues will be familiar with the situation where an employee requests to be accompanied to an internal hearing by someone who isn't a trade union representative or work colleague. The usual position is that they do not have this right in law and therefore the request can be declined with relative confidence. However, just to keep us all on our toes the High Court have made a decision in the recent case of Stevens v University of Birmingham which tests this perceived wisdom.