ABSTRACT
The tribunal had been monitoring the few claims to asylum it had been receiving mainly from the Middle East and later from parts of Africa as well, from the middle of the 1980s, and by 1988, had already delegated the management of anticipated flows of appeals likely to involve asylum issues to three adjudicators. The tribunal has attempted to speed up the throughput of appeals by whatever means at its disposal, but as mentioned below, any attempt at a smooth process was often thwarted by the manner in which the Home Office released its decisions. However, the worst and most consistent hurdle the tribunal faced was the poor quality of the initial decisions themselves. A major boost to the authority of the president of the tribunal was the appointment of a serving High Court Judge as President. Mr Justice Collins proved to be an inspired choice.
