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The Senior President of Tribunals has made the following Practice Directions for use from 3 November 2008.

Practice Directions | Practice Statements

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Practice Directions

First-Tier and Upper Tribunal

• Use of The Welsh Language in Tribunals in Wales - 30 October 2008 (PDF 31kb)
• Use of the Welsh Language in Tribunals in Wales (Cymraeg) - 30 October 2008 (PDF 34kb)
• Child, Vulnerable Adult and Sensitive Witnesses - 30 October 2008 (PDF 30kb)

Upper Tribunal

• Transcripts of Proceedings - 30 October 2008 (PDF 29kb)

First-Tier Tribunal

• Social Entitlement Chamber
  Asylum Support Cases - 30 October 2008 (PDF 28kb)
• Health Education and Social Care Chamber
  Mental Health Cases - 30 October 2008 (PDF 80kb)
• Health Education and Social Care Chamber
  Special Educational Needs or Disability Discrimination in Schools Cases - 30 October 2008 (PDF 47kb)

Other relevant Practice Directions

• Lord Chief Justice's direction on transfer of judicial review (PDF 41kb)
• Act of Sederunt (Transfer of Judicial Review Applications from the Court of Session) 2008

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Practice Statements

Delegation of Function to Staff

• Practice Statement on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 41kb)

Composition of Tribunals

• In relation to matters that fall to be decided by The Administrative Appeals Chamber of The Upper Tribunal on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 43kb)
• In Social Security and Child Support Cases in The Social Entitlement Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 44kb)
• In relation to matters that fall to be decided in Criminal Injury Compensation Cases in the Social Entitlement Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 37kb)
• In relation to matters that fall to be decided in Asylum Support Cases in the Social Entitlement Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 36kb)
• In relation to matters that fall to be decided by The War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 37kb)
• In relation to matters that fall to be decided by The Health, Education and Social Care Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 37kb)

Record of Proceedings

• In Social Security Cases in The Social Entitlement Chamber on or after 3 November 2008 (PDF 36kb)

Form of decisions and neutral citation

• First-tier and upper tribunal on or after 3 November 2008 - 30 October 2008 (PDF 32kb)

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