Upper Tribunal: Decisions

LE 9

From 2010

This series contains decisions of the four chambers of the Upper Tribunal:

• Administrative Appeals Chamber (UKUT AAC),
• Immigration and Asylum Chamber (UKUT IAC),
• Lands Chamber (UKUT LC),
• Tax and Chancery Chamber (UKUT TCC).

These decisions are written and handed down (issued) by tribunal judges at the conclusion of cases. They typically include significant detail about the facts of the cases and the reasons for the decisions reached.

As of 2022, decisions are typically created as Microsoft Word documents. These are transformed into the XML format LegalDocML for publication online. For a small proportion of judgments, supporting documents, such as orders or press summaries, also exist.

Published decisions are available at caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk.

UKUT

Public Record(s)

English

digital record(s)

Published tribunal decisions are made available by the direction of the tribunal judges. They can be used under the terms and conditions of the Open Justice Licence.

Open unless otherwise stated

In 2021 British and Irish Legal Information Institute

From 2022 Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service

Topics

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From Spring 2022 onwards, tribunals have begun to transfer decisions directly to The National Archives in digital form. A set of earlier decisions was supplied by BAILII in Autumn 2021; this included both decisions supplied directly to BAILII by the tribunal and decisions obtained from other sources.

The National Archives receives and publishes tribunal decisions on an ongoing basis.

All tribunal decisions and, where applicable, supporting documents transferred to The National Archives are selected for permanent preservation.

The Upper Tribunal was estabished in 2008 under the Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007. It is a superior court of record with the power to set precedents and enforce its decisions without intervention from the High Court or another superior court. Since 2011, it has been administered by HM Courts and Tribunals Service. The various chambers of the Upper Tribunal hear appeals from the First-tier Tribunal and certain other appeals and disputes. Appeals against decisions of the Upper Tribunal are heard by the Court of Appeal (in England and Wales), the Court of Session (in Scotland) or the Court of Appeal (in Northern Ireland).

Many tribunal decisions have been routinely published on the tribunals' websites. Decisions have also been re-published by legal publishers. The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII), founded in 2000, became one of the largest and most popular sources of freely-available case law information.

In June 2021, the Ministry of Justice made a policy announcement that The National Archives was to store, preserve and publish court judgments and tribunal decisions for England and Wales. An Alpha version of the publication service was launched in April 2022.

The Open Justice Licence was created in 2022 to support the re-use of information from published case law.