PART 2General powers and provisions
Representatives11
1
F9Subject to paragraph (5A), a party may appoint a representative (whether a legal representative or not) to represent that party in the proceedings F6save that a party in an asylum or immigration case may not be represented by any person prohibited from representing by section 84 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999.
2
If a party appoints a representative, that party (or the representative if the representative is a legal representative) must send or deliver to the Upper Tribunal F1... written notice of the representative's name and address.
F22A
If the Upper Tribunal receives notice that a party has appointed a representative under paragraph (2), it must send a copy of that notice to each other party.
3
Anything permitted or required to be done by a party under these Rules, a practice direction or a direction may be done by the representative of that party, except signing a witness statement.
4
A person who receives due notice of the appointment of a representative—
a
must provide to the representative any document which is required to be provided to the represented party, and need not provide that document to the represented party; and
b
may assume that the representative is and remains authorised as such until they receive written notification that this is not so from the representative or the represented party.
5
F10Subject to paragraph (5B), at a hearing a party may be accompanied by another person whose name and address has not been notified under paragraph (2) but who, subject to paragraph (8) and with the permission of the Upper Tribunal, may act as a representative or otherwise assist in presenting the party's case at the hearing.
F115A
In F12immigration judicial review proceedings, a party may appoint as a representative only a person authorised under the Legal Services Act 2007 to undertake the conduct of litigation in the High Court.
5B
At a hearing of F13immigration judicial review proceedings, rights of audience before the Upper Tribunal are restricted to persons authorised to exercise those rights in the High Court under the Legal Services Act 2007.
6
Paragraphs (2) to (4) do not apply to a person who accompanies a party under paragraph (5).
7
In a mental health case if the patient has not appointed a representative the Upper Tribunal may appoint a legal representative for the patient where—
a
the patient has stated that they do not wish to conduct their own case or that they wish to be represented; or
b
the patient lacks the capacity to appoint a representative but the Upper Tribunal believes that it is in the patient's best interests for the patient to be represented.
8
In a mental health case a party may not appoint as a representative, or be represented or assisted at a hearing by—
a
a person liable to be detained or subject to guardianship or after-care under supervision, or who is a community patient, under the Mental Health Act 1983; or
b
a person receiving treatment for mental disorder at the same hospital F4or home as the patient.
F39
In this rule “legal representative” means F5a 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, F7a qualified person as defined in section 84(2) of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999, an advocate or solicitor in Scotland or a barrister or solicitor in Northern Ireland.
F810
In an asylum case or an immigration case, an appellant’s representative before the First-tier Tribunal will be treated as that party’s representative before the Upper Tribunal, unless the Upper Tribunal receives notice—
a
of a new representative under paragraph (2) of this rule; or
b
from the appellant stating that they are no longer represented.