Chamber) Siobhan McGrath Chamber President 1 The Landscape - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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The First-tier Tribunal (Property Chamber)

Siobhan McGrath Chamber President

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The Landscape

• Landlord and Tenant disputes

distributed between Courts and Tribunals

• Law Commission Report: Housing

Dispute Resolution and the Role of Tribunals

• First step in rationalisation?

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A Time of Change

• Structural Change
• Changes to regulations
• Looking ahead

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Structural Change

• Tribunal Courts and Enforcement Act 2007
• Senior President of Tribunals
• First-tier Tribunal divided into Chambers
• Property Chamber – bringing together RPTS

Tribunals, Adjudicator to HM Land Registry and Agricultural Lands Tribunal

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Chamber Membership

• Chamber President
• Principal Judges for RPTS, ALR and ALT
• Regional Judges and Deputy Regional

Judges

• Judges and other members – experts and lay

members

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Transfer of Tribunal Functions Order

• Abolishes RACs, RTs, LVTs and RPTs,

the ALR and the ALT

• Transfers all jurisdictions to First-tier

Tribunal

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Regulations

• The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier

Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013

• Replaces all procedure rules that

previously applied to the Tribunals

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Regulation changes

• Standardisation
• Overriding objective – rule 2
• Case management powers – rule 6
• Sanctions – rule 8

– Strike out – rule 9 – Costs – rule 13

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Appeals

• All appeals to Upper Tier Lands except

for ALR which will go to Upper Tier (Tax and Chancery) – Part 6

• NB:

– Review – Set Aside

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Jurisdictions

• Courts and Tribunals
• Tidying –up
• Best use of expertise

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What next?

• A joined up service?

– Triage Plus and Advice – Mediation – Adjudication

• Adjudicating in a time of austerity

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QUESTIONS