Andrew is enthusiastic about the Chamber’s future. "I think we stand to gain tremendously from the tribunal reform programme. As an Upper Tribunal judge, I see my role as to provide judicial leadership, following the trend of recent appointments in the tribunal system.” Challenges for the future include maintaining the service expertise of the jurisdiction given that National Service ended in 1960, and Andrew sees the voluntary and reserve forces as a possible source of recruitment for the future.
Andrew Bano (male) English form of
the Greek name Andreas, a short form of any of various compound names derived
from andr- ‘man, warrior’. In the New Testament this is the name of the first
disciple to be called by Jesus. After the Resurrection, St Andrew preached in
Asia Minor and Greece. He is traditionally believed to have been crucified at
Patras in Achaia. He was one of the most popular saints of the Middle Ages and
was adopted as the patron of Scotland, Russia, and Greece. It has long been
among the most popular boys’ names in the English-speaking world, especially in
Scotland. Its popularity in England was further enhanced by its use as a
British royal name for Prince Andrew (b. 1960), the Duke of York.
Andrew Bano, a Social
Security and Child Support Commissioner, discusses bringing together tribunals
into the judicial family in an article which originally appeared in ‘Benchmark’
the judicial newsletter. This article has been reproduced with kind permission
of the author and Benchmark team.
The 2001 report of the review of tribunals chaired by
Sir Andrew Leggatt, Tribunals for Users-One System, One Service, painted a
bleak picture. It described a patchwork of tribunals administered by different
government departments, each of which had been created by individual pieces of
primary legislation, but without any overarching framework. To deal with this
problem, the Leggatt report recommended that tribunals should be brought
together into a single system, administered by a new Tribunals Service in what
was then the Lord Chancellor’s Department.
Like many similar reports, the recommendations of the
Leggatt inquiry might have gone unheeded, but for human rights concerns. The
departments which administered tribunals were usually the rule making authority
for their tribunals and paid the salaries and fees of the tribunal members.
Since those departments were usually parties to the proceedings before the
tribunal, it was evident that tribunals did not have the independence which was
required by Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In July 2004 the Government published its
response to the Leggatt report as a White Paper called Transforming Public
Service: Complaints, Redress and Tribunals. The White Paper proposed two new
generic tribunals: a First-tier Tribunal and an Upper Tribunal, dealing mainly,
but not exclusively, with appeals from the First-tier Tribunal. The Tribunals,
Courts and Enforcement Act 2007, which received Royal Assent on 19th July this
year, created the machinery for transferring existing tribunals into the new
unified structure and for the organisation of the new tribunals into
‘chambers’, presided over by a Chamber
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