Judicial precedent

Natasha Hussain


What are Tribunals?

 Tribunals operate alongside the court system and are an important
part of our modern legal system
 They were established in order to give people a way of enforcing
rights
 They deal with –
 Redundancy payments
 Sex and race discrimination
 Disability rights
 Mobility allowance
 Unfair dismissal

Tribunals, Courts and Enforcements acts 2007 reformed the whole tribunal
system from a confusing and complicated system, which included more
than 70 different types of tribunals, to a unified and structured tribunal
system.


 Tribunals are usually divided into two types –




Administrative tribunals –

First-tier Tribunals (hear cases at Upper Tribunals (hear appeals)
first instance) operates in 6 Divided into 4 chambers
different chambers
The general health regulatory The administrative appeals
chamber
The health, education and social The immigration and asylum
care chamber chamber
Immigration and asylum chamber The lands chamber
Tax chamber The tax and chancery chamber
War pension and armed forces
There is also employment tribunal From the upper Tribunals there is a