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This is a very good point. Most Employment Law Judges are very polite, even when their patience is sorely tested! But one or two are very petty, and sardonic. The worst part of a tribunal case is the beginning: have I got one of 'those'? I was once berated about a 'well known tradition' (in this case, the judge told me that any document referred to in the bundle should be quoted in the statement, verbatim). I asked him about the origins of this tradition and if there was one, what purpose would the bundle of documents serve? To which he went purple.
The problem with bundle wars and similar spats at the outset of a hearing is not so much the poor old advocate who has to soak it all up, it is more that the client, who is at their wit's end with stress, thinks the judge is against them, and their case.
I wish someone would publish 'The Ten Commandments' for acceptable conduct by judges!
But these characters are the exception, not the rule.