ABSTRACT
There is a Senior President of Tribunals (as at 2012 Lord Justice Sullivan). The new tribunals will be known as the First-tier Tribunal and the Upper Tribunal, for the purposes of exercising the functions to be conferred by the Act or any other Act. Each will consist of judges and other members. The Senior President of Tribunals will preside over both levels, and the Upper Tribunal will be a superior court of record: section 3. The Lord Chancellor may by order provide for the transfer of functions of a scheduled tribunal to the First-tier Tribunal, and/or the Upper Tribunal. The order will make provision for the question as to which tribunal is to exercise a function to be determined by a person under the provisions of the order, and/or as may be specified by the order: see sections 30-31 and Schedule 6. The Upper Tribunal was set up in April 2009. The then existing members, and the current jurisdiction, of the Lands Tribunal were transferred to the Upper Tribunal (Lands Chamber). There is a probability that some work would be devolved down to the First-tier Tribunal in the future, when that was set up.
