Unlike many areas of the justice system (read: the hideously understaffed County Courts) I’ve never had a problem dealing with the Tribunals Service. There seems to be an appropriate staffing level, you can get a fax looked at by a Judge and a response sent out the same day if it’s urgent, and there’s none of that harrassed and uncooperative manner you find elsewhere.
But god forbid a service that works well is just left to get on with it. The Contracting Out (Administrative Work of Tribunals) Order 2009 SI 2009/121 enables the Lord Chancellor to contract out the administrative functions of:
- the First-tier Tribunal;
- the Upper Tribunal;
- employment tribunals;
- the Employment Appeal Tribunal; and
- the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal.
Oh. Joy.
