Tribunals Service
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The Tribunals Service is an executive agency of the Department for Constitutional Affairs in the United Kingdom.
The Tribunals Service is responsible for:
- the Adjudicator for HM Land Registry
- the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
- the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel
- Employment Tribunals
- the Employment Appeal Tribunal
- the Information Tribunal
- the Lands Tribunal
- the Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal, formerly managed by the Appeals Service.
- the Transport Tribunal
[edit] History
The Tribunals Service was created in response to Sir Andrew Leggatt's review of the Tribunal system, entitled "Tribunals for Users: One System, One Service", published in August of 2001. He criticised the existing system for administrating many tribunals, in particular: that some tribunals were not independent of the administrative bodies over which they were supposed to exert control; and that there was no uniformity of administration between the many tribunals.
The Leggatt report was followed by a white paper in July 2004, entitled "Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals", which, amongst other recommendations, proposed bringing together a number of tribunals under the administrative of a newly created agency.
The government's plans came to fruition in April 2006, when the Tribunals Service was created out of the 16 tribunals that were already administered by the Department for Constitutional Affairs, together with a number transferred from other government departments. An example of the latter is the Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal which were supplied administrative support by the Appeals Service, which was formerly an executive agency in its own right, reporting to the Department for Work and Pensions.
[edit] See also
- Council on Tribunals
- Tribunal
