The Tribunals Service was an

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of the

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in the

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between April 2006 and March 2011. The Tribunals Service was responsible for: *

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* Claims Management Services Tribunal *

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Employment Tribunal Employment tribunals are tribunal public bodies in England and Wales and Scotland which have statutory jurisdiction to hear many kinds of disputes between employers and employees. The most common disputes are concerned with unfair dismissal, ...

s *

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* Immigration Services Tribunal * Information Tribunal * Lands Tribunal * Social Security Appeal Tribunal and the Child Support Appeals Tribunal, formerly managed by the Appeals Service. *

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History

The Tribunals Service was created in response to Sir Andrew Leggatt's review of the UK

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system, entitled ''Tribunals for Users: One System, One Service'', published in August 2001. Leggatt criticised the then existing system for administrating many tribunals, in particular he observed that some tribunals were not independent of the administrative bodies over which they were supposed to exert control; and that there was no uniformity of administration between the many tribunals. The Leggatt report was followed by a

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in July 2004, entitled ''Transforming Public Services: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals'', which, amongst other recommendations, proposed bringing together a number of tribunals under the administrative of a newly created agency. The government's plans came to fruition in April 2006, when the Tribunals Service was created out of the 16 tribunals that were already administered by the

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, together with a number transferred from other government departments. An example of the latter is the Social Security and Child Support Appeals Tribunal which was supplied with administrative support by the Appeals Service, which was formerly an executive agency in its own right, reporting to the

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. In 2010 it was announced that the service would merge with

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to form a new unified body for all courts and tribunals in England and Wales. this merger took place on 1 April 2011 with the formation of

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* {{Ministry of Justice (United Kingdom) Defunct executive agencies of the United Kingdom government Government agencies established in 2006 Government agencies disestablished in 2011 Organisations based in the City of Westminster 2006 establishments in the United Kingdom United Kingdom tribunals