The Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber) Rules 2008

Citation, commencement, application and interpretation U.K.

1.—(1) 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.

[F1 (2) These Rules apply to proceedings before the War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber of the First-tier Tribunal.]

(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 [F2 a person who, for the purposes of the Legal Services Act 2007, is an authorised person in relation to an activity which constitutes the exercise of a right of audience or the conduct of litigation within the meaning of that Act];

“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);

“Tribunal” means the First-tier Tribunal.

Textual Amendments

F1 Rule 1(2) substituted (29.11.2010) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/2653), rules 1, 7(2)

F2 Words in rule 1(3) substituted (18.1.2010) by The Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2010 (S.I. 2010/43), rules 1, 4