You are not tried by a jury of your peers, but by a manager of some sort. It is not the most impartial system,
You have put yourself forward on here as some sort of expert on IR & yet you seem foggy about disciplinary hearings. The hearing will always have in attendance someone from HR as well as a line manager, plus the accused person is allowed representation. As stated, the hearings are a procedure which is agreed by the unions.
Having been found
GUILTY, why haven't they applied to an industrial tribunal? I think that we all know the answer to that question.