ABSTRACT
The Employment Tribunal and the Employment Appeal Tribunal continue largely unchanged as a separate 'pillar' of the new system, as do some other specialist tribunals such as Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC). They are subject to the authority of the Senior President for training and welfare purposes and are treated as having the same status as Chambers in the First-tier and Upper Tribunals. Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms have assumed an increasingly central place in the English legal system in fairly recent times. Central to Lord Woolf's review of the civil law system was the perception of the lack of control over the antagonistic process of civil litigation allowing, if not necessarily directly leading to, inherent problems of cost, complexity and delay. In April 2015 the government implemented its proposals to comply with the directive and regulation through the Alternative Dispute Resolution for Consumer Disputes.
