- Tribunals Service
The Tribunals Service is an
executive agency of the Ministry of Justice in theUnited Kingdom .The Tribunals Service is responsible for:
*Adjudicator for HM Land Registry
*Asylum and Immigration Tribunal
*Claims Management Services Tribunal
*Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeal Panel
*Employment Tribunal s
*Employment Appeal Tribunal
*Immigration Services Tribunal
*Information Tribunal
*Lands Tribunal
*Social Security Appeal Tribunal and theChild Support Appeals Tribunal , formerly managed by the Appeals Service.
*Transport Tribunal History
The Tribunals Service was created in response to Sir
Andrew Leggatt 's review of the UKtribunal system, entitled "Tribunals for Users: One System, One Service", published in August of2001 . [ cite web | author=Leggatt, A. | url=http://www.tribunals-review.org.uk/leggatthtm/leg-00.htm | publisher=Department for Constitutional Affairs | year=2001 | title=Tribunals for Users - One System, One Service | accessdate=2008-03-05 ] Leggatt criticised the then existing system for administrating many tribunals, in particular he observed 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 July2004 , 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. [ cite web | title=Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals | url=http://www.dca.gov.uk/pubs/adminjust/transformfull.pdf | author=Department of Constitutional Affairs | year=2004 | accessdate=2008-03-05 ]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 theDepartment for Constitutional Affairs , together with a number transferred from other government departments. An example of the latter is theSocial Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal which was supplied with administrative support by theAppeals Service , which was formerly an executive agency in its own right, reporting to theDepartment for Work and Pensions .Fact|date=March 2008References
External links
* cite web | url=http://www.tribunals.gov.uk/ | title=Tribunal Service | publisher=Ministry of Justice | date=2007 | accessdate=2008-03-14
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