ABSTRACT
The effectiveness of any redress mechanism depends greatly on its accessibility. This has been increasingly recognized in relation to court procedures in recent years, culminating in the reforms to civil justice in 1999 initiated by Lord Woolf MR. One of the great advantages of tribunals, compared with the courts, has been the relative ease with which ordinary members of the public can take their grievance before what is today widely recognized to be a judicial forum: the increasing judicialization of tribunals over the past twenty years has effectively ended the debate about whether tribunals operate as ‘administrative’ as opposed to ‘judicial’ bodies.
