Practice Direction for FTT and UT during pandemic

EDIT: APOLOGIES THIS IS NOT NECESSARY POST- SEE https://www.rightsnet.org.uk/forums/viewthread/15764/ INSTEAD (martin)

See - https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/pilot-practice-direction-contingency-arrangements-in-the-first-tier-tribunal-and-the-upper-tribunal/

Apologies if this is here somewhere already (so much to keep track of at the moment).

1. Encourages Chamber Presidents to use the triage system.

2. Where hearings are necessary then more or less defaults to some form of remote hearing.

I’d be interested to hear from anyone who has experienced remote hearings since this began- conference call? Or zoom meeting? Just knowing the method would be of interest.

Martin

Sorry - there is also this one which allows panel composition to be altered - https://www.judiciary.uk/publications/pilot-practice-direction-panel-composition-in-the-first-tier-tribunal-and-the-upper-tribunal/

I had a hearing by conference call yesterday.  The hearing had already been arranged as a telephone hearing so it wasn’t difficult to go ahead as a conference call.  I gave the Tribunals Service my mobile number so that I could take part from home.  The client was at home with his CPN there too.

The clerk rings you first to check all is ok and then an 0203 number rings you back.  You have press *1 to accept the call and then state your name.  So you need a phone number that comes straight through to you.  No good going through a switchboard.

The appeal was allowed on the papers, so I can’t give any insights into the rest of the proceedings!