This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

GDL Law Notes GDL English Legal System Notes

Tribunals Notes

Updated Tribunals Notes

GDL English Legal System Notes

GDL English Legal System

Approximately 103 pages

A collection of the best GDL notes the director of Oxbridge Notes (an Oxford law graduate) could find after combing through applications from top students and carefully evaluating each on accuracy, formatting, logical structure, spelling/grammar, conciseness and "wow-factor". In short these are what we believe to be the strongest set of GDL notes available in the UK this year....

Available here

The following is a more accessible plain text extract of the PDF sample above, taken from our GDL English Legal System Notes. Due to the challenges of extracting text from PDFs, it will have odd formatting:

Tribunals

  • Tribunals are less formal and more specialised than ordinary courts.

  • History

    • Tribunals were in existence as long ago as 1799, but the present system has really grown up since the Second World War.

  • The Franks report

    • In 1957 the Franks Committee investigated the workings of tribunals.

      • It recommended that tribunal procedures should be marked by ‘openness, fairness and impartiality’.

    • Following the Committee’s report, the Council on Tribunals was established.

  • Reforming the tribunals

    • Tribunals have recently been the subject of a major reform with the passing of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.

    • This piece of legislation followed a lengthy review of the tribunal service undertaken by the Government.

    • First, in 2000, the Government asked Sir Andrew Leggatt, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal, to look at the tribunal service.

      • The report of the Review, Tribunals for Users: One System, One Service, was published in 2001.

      • It identified some significant weaknesses in the current system.

      • In particular, it was concerned that the tribunals were not always accessible or user-friendly, they were not independent from the Ministries whose decisions were the subject of the tribunal work and the tribunal system lacked coherence.

      • The Review concluded that the tribunals had to be rationalised and modernised.

  • Tribunals today

    • Following the Leggatt Review, the former Labour Government issued a White Paper, Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals (2004), containing significant plans to reform the tribunal system.

    • Many of these reforms are contained in the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007.

      • Part 1 of the Act creates a new, simplified statutory framework for tribunals.

    • The Act establishes two new, generic tribunals:

      • The First-tier...

Buy the full version of these notes or essay plans and more in our GDL English Legal System Notes.

More GDL English Legal System Samples