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Tribunals Reform: Five years on address by the Senior President Sir Robert Carnwath CVO (12 November 2009)

Tribunals Reform: Five years on address by the Senior President Sir Robert Carnwath
It is just over five years since the publication in July 2004 of the White Paper ‘Transforming Public Service: Complaints; Redress and Tribunals’, in his speech to AJTC the Senior President looked back over the achievements of the past five years as well as towards future areas for development.

Tribunal Reform – the Scottish Dimension (11th February 2009)

Lord Justice Carnwath's speech to Scottish tribunals and courts judiciary at the Signet Library, Edinburgh on 11th February 2009. The subject of the speech was the reform of the tribunals system following the Leggatt Review and how this impacted on tribunals on Scotland

Tribunals Justice – a new start (19th November 2008)

Lord Justice Carnwath's speech to the November 2008 conference of the Administrative justice & Tribunals Council. The subject of the speech was the implementation of the Tribunals, Courts & Enforcement Act on 3rd November (T-Day)

Getting there at last (20th November 2007)

This speech by Lord Justice Carnwath, updated the November 2007 conference of the Administrative Justice and Tribunals Council on the progress of tribunal reform resulting from the Leggatt Review.

Right first time (14th November 2006)

This speech by Lord Justice Carnwath, to the November 2006 conference of the Council on Tribunals, focussed on progress to tribunals reform and the forthcoming announcement of the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill in the Queen's Speech.

Tribunals under the Constitutional Reform Act (15th November 2005)

In this speech to the November 2005 conference of the Council on Tribunals, Lord Justice Carnwath spoke about the effect that the provisions of the Constitutional Reform Act would have on tribunals.

Tribunals Justice – building on strength (November 2004)

Lord Justice Carnwath's speech to the November 2004 conference of Council on Tribunals. The focus of this speech was progress being made on reforms to the tribunals system resulting from the Leggatt Review.