PART 1Introduction
Citation, commencement, application and interpretation1
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These Rules may be cited as the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber) Rules 2008 and come into force on 3rd November 2008.
2
These Rules apply to proceedings before the Tribunal which have been assigned to the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber by the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal (Chambers) Order 20082.
3
In these Rules—
“the 2007 Act” means the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007;
“appellant” means a person who makes an appeal to the Tribunal, or a person substituted as an appellant under rule 9(1) (substitution of parties);
“decision maker” means the maker of a decision against which an appeal has been brought;
“dispose of proceedings” includes, unless indicated otherwise, disposing of a part of the proceedings;
“document” means anything in which information is recorded in any form, and an obligation under these Rules to provide or allow access to a document or a copy of a document for any purpose means, unless the Tribunal directs otherwise, an obligation to provide or allow access to such document or copy in a legible form or in a form which can be readily made into a legible form;
“hearing” means an oral hearing and includes a hearing conducted in whole or in part by video link, telephone or other means of instantaneous two-way electronic communication;
“legal representative” means an authorised advocate or authorised litigator as defined by section 119(1) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 19903;
“party” means a person who is an appellant or respondent in proceedings before the Tribunal or, if the proceedings have been concluded, a person who was an appellant or respondent when the Tribunal finally disposed of all issues in the proceedings;
“practice direction” means a direction given under section 23 of the 2007 Act;
“respondent” means—
- a
in an appeal against a decision, the decision maker and any person other than the appellant who had a right of appeal against the decision; or
- b
a person substituted or added as a respondent under rule 9 (substitution and addition of parties);
- a
“Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal.