The Tribunals Service: access to informal justice

The 26 May issue of the FreePint Newsletter carries a feature, Specialist Tribunals – Your Guide to Informal Justice, by David Ogden who recently began a new position as Head of Tribunal Library Services at the Department for Constitutional Affairs. He provides an overview of the tribunals system, including information about the Tribunals Service, a new government agency to be launched in April 2006 to provide common administrative support for the main central government tribunals, the tribunals currently supported by the DCA, those due to join the service in 2006, those due to join later and other smaller tribunals and tribunal sites.