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I am staring this topic due to the lottery and review system in place. I apologise to "The Wizard"; but, I ask again: what is the mechanism to put in place a higher Tribunal whose adjudicators are separate and "higher" than the current ones so that people do not have to fork out thousands to apply for Judicial Review?

This surely needs a concerted effort by many to approach their MPs and get the ball rolling.

I have enough on my plate at present and am finding it difficult coping with advising on here and dealing with appeals - some of which belong to me - apart from taking councils to task big time.

I really hope we can achieve some change in this regard and I do remember raising this before my last personal hearing in February 2025 with the Chief Adjudicator.

Presumably it would require legislative change to either create an appellate tribunal or direct appeals to the existing Upper Tribunal.

Correct, even if all chief adjudicators agreed with Hippocrates, ultimately only Parliament could bring about such a change. The obvious route would be an appeal to the existing Upper Tribunal, similarly to what's been done in Scotland.

As always the question will be cost, as appeals to the UT would either have to carry very significant fees to cover the costs of paying judges, admin staff, IT systems and so on, or some charging mechanism would need to be introduced whereby enforcement authorities get invoiced by HMCTS for the cost of such appeals. Councils won't want to pay anything, so the government of the day would need to impose a charging mechanism on them.

The obvious route would be an appeal to the existing Upper Tribunal, similarly to what's been done in Scotland.

This is the part I have forgotten! Where is it please?

Have a look here.