Steps in proceedingsE+W
62.—(1) If during the appeal or the claim the President or the tribunal panel make a finding that a child appellant or claimant lacks capacity to understand within the meaning of section 85(1) of the 2018 Act and requires a case friend to conduct the proceedings on its behalf, no party may take any further step in the appeal or the claim without the President’s or the tribunal panel’s permission until and unless a person who wishes to act as the appellant’s or the claimant’s case friend has submitted an application to the Tribunal in accordance with regulation 61.
(2) Where the President or tribunal panel has ordered that a person is a case friend, the Secretary of the Tribunal must send a copy of the order to the case friend, the child’s parent and to the child’s school and local authority.
(3) Where the President or tribunal panel has ordered that a person is a case friend, the Secretary of the Tribunal must send all documents and notices concerning the appeal or claim to the case friend instead of the appellant or the claimant.
(4) If paragraph (3) applies, references in these Regulations (however expressed) to sending documents to, or giving notice to, the appellant or the claimant must be construed as references to sending documents to, or giving notice to, the case friend.