Part 1: Tribunals and Inquiries Background The new tribunals
13.The Government’s response to Sir Andrew Leggatt’s recommended single tribunal system is to create two new, generic tribunals, the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal, into which existing tribunal jurisdictions can be transferred. The Upper Tribunal is primarily, but not exclusively, an appellate tribunal from the First-tier Tribunal.
14.The Act also provides for the establishment of “chambers” within the two tribunals so that the many jurisdictions that will be transferred into the tribunals can be grouped together appropriately. Each chamber will be headed by a Chamber President and the tribunals’ judiciary will be headed by a Senior President of Tribunals.