Points of procedure 2: hearings, decisions and appeals - In the second part of a feature rounding-up recent noteworthy decisions of the EAT and Court of Appeal on EAT and employment tribunal procedure and practice, we consider: the composition of employment tribunals; bias; witness statements; postponement and adjournment of hearings; staying proceedings; public hearings; the conduct of, and procedure at, hearings; res judicata; abuse of process; reviewing a tribunal's decision; costs; the composition of the EAT; instituting an appeal; its venue and language; the preliminary hearing stage; raising new points of law; disposing of an appeal; and appeals from the EAT. The first part of this feature appeared in IRLB 637 (pp.10-15).