Annex A

List of those who responded to our Consultation Paper

Judiciary

Rt Hon Lord Woolf

Rt Hon Lord Justice Brooke

Rt Hon Lord Justice Mummery

Rt Hon Lord Justice Sedley

Rt Hon Lord Coulsfield

The Hon Mrs Justice Arden DBE (now Lady Justice Arden)

The Hon Mr Justice Bell

The Hon Mr Justice Collins

The Hon Mr Justice Holland

The Hon Sir William Macpherson of Cluny

The Hon Mr Justice Sullivan

The Hon Mr Justice Thomas

Council of Her Majesty’s Circuit Judges

His Honour John Byrt QC

His Honour Judge Kenneth Machin QC, Chief Commissioner OSSCSC

His Honour Judge Prophet, President, Employment Tribunals (England & Wales)

His Honour Judge Anthony Thorpe

Magistrates’ Association

Tribunals

Agricultural Land Tribunal

Appeal Tribunals (Northern Ireland)

Appeals Service

Competition Commission

Competition Commission Appeal Tribunal

Copyright Tribunal

Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel

Data Protection Commissioner

Foreign Compensation Commission

Immigration Appeal Tribunal

Immigration Appellate Authority

Lands Tribunal for Scotland

Mental Health Review Tribunal

Misuse of Drugs Tribunal

National Health Service Tribunal

National Parking Adjudication Service

Northern Ireland Social Security Commissioners

Office of the Social Security & Child Support Commissioners

Parking Appeals Service

Pensions Appeal Tribunals

Pensions Appeal Tribunals for Scotland

Registered Homes Tribunal

Reserve Forces Appeal Tribunals

Solicitors’ Disciplinary Tribunal

South Western Rent Assessment Panel

Southern & South Eastern Rent Assessment Panel

Special Educational Needs Tribunal

Transport Tribunal

VAT & Duties Tribunal

Representative, user and advice groups

ADR Group

Advice Services Alliance

Advisory Centre for Education

Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus

Barnados

Benefits Shop

Blackstone Franks Chartered Accountants

British Institute of Verbatim Reporters

British Medical Association

British Music Rights

British Property Federation

British Psychological Society (Disciplinary Board)

Chartered Institute of Patent Agents

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

Chartered Institute of Taxation

Child Poverty Action Group

Chinese in Britain Forum

Communications Forum

Confederation of British Industry

Coventry Law Centre

Deloitte & Touche Indirect Taxes Group

Disability Discrimination Act Advisers’ Group

Disablement Welfare Rights

Federation of Small Businesses

Food & Drink Federation

General Osteopathic Council

Heads of Registration & Inspection National Group

Highland Advice & Information Network

Human Resource Solutions Plus

India-America Society

Information for School and College Governors

Institute of Chartered Accountants

Institute of Directors

Institute of Mental Health Act Practitioners

Institution of Professionals, Managers and Specialists

Inverness Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Lancashire Association of Trade Union Councils

Lancashire County Council Welfare Rights Service

Lancaster Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Law Centre Northern Ireland

Law Centres Federation

Legal Action Group

Little Chalfont Rural Preservation Society

Liverpool Citizens Advice Bureau

Local Government Association

London Advice Services Alliance

Luton Law Centre

Manchester Advice

Mansfield Unemployed Workers Centre

Medical Defence Union (The MDU)

Middlesbrough Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Milton Keynes Citizens’ Advice Bureau

MIND

MIND in Croydon

Moat Housing Group

Motherwell & Wishaw Citizens’ Advice Bureau

NASUWT

National Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux

National Association of Inspection and Registration Officers

National Association of Pension Funds

National Association of Valuation Tribunals

National Autistic Society

National Council for Civil Liberties (LIBERTY)

National Deaf Children’s Society

National Farmers’ Union

National Institute of Conductive Education

Newham Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Newspaper Society

NI Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureaux

Orchard M.E. Centre

Perth Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Phonographic Performance Ltd

PricewaterhouseCoopers

Public and Commercial Service Union

Quarry Products Association

Rating Surveyors Association

Royal British Legion

Royal College of General Practitioners

Royal College of Psychiatrists

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)

Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB)

Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

RVL Consultancy

Scottish Association of Citizens’ Advice Bureau

Scottish Legal Action Group

Society of Chief Personnel Officers in Local Government

Society of Editors

Solace International

South Tyneside Council on Disabilities

South Tyneside Trades Union Council

Tax Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants

Tenant Farmers Association

Trades Union Congress

UNISON

VAT Practitioners Group

Victim Support

Video Performance Ltd

Wakefield Centre for the Unemployed

Wales Council for the Blind

Working Age Client Group

Judicial, tribunal and legal professional associations

Association of District Judges

Association of Members of the Immigration Appeal Tribunal

Association of Pension Lawyers

Asylum Support Adjudicators

Bar Council

British and Irish Ombudsmen Association

Council of Employment Tribunal Members’ Associations

Council of Immigration Judges

Council of Wales Valuation Tribunals

East Midlands Employment Tribunal Members Association

East Midlands Valuation Tribunal Group

Employment Lawyers Group

Faculty of Advocates

Immigration Law Practitioners’ Association

Law Society

Law Society of Scotland

Local Government Group of the Law Society

National Association of General Commissioners of Income Tax

Scottish Law Agents Society

Sheriffs’ Association

Social Security Law Practitioners Association

Society of Clerks of Valuation Tribunals

Society of Her Majesty’s Writers to the Signet (WS Society)

Barristers and solicitors

K Legal solicitors

Linklaters & Alliance

Pump Court Tax Chambers

Short, Richardson & Forth, solicitors

St Philip’s Chambers

Government and agencies

Child Support Agency

Department for Education and Employment

Employment Tribunals Service

Department of Health

Department of Social Security

Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

Department of Trade & Industry

FHS Appeal Authority

Foreign & Commonwealth Office

HM Customs and Excise

HM Treasury

Home Office

Independent Review Service

Inland Revenue

Lord Chancellor’s Department

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

National Assembly for Wales

National Health Service

Office of Fair Trading

Planning Service

Treasury Solicitor

Valuation Office Agency

Public bodies

The Adjudicator’s Office, HM Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue

Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS)

Architects’ Registration Board

Central Arbitration Committee

Commission for Local Administration in England

Commission for Local Administration in Wales

Committee of Public Accounts

Council on Tribunals

Disability Rights Commission

Equal Opportunities Commission

Financial Services Authority

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority

Legal Services Commission

A Legal Services Commissioner

Legal Services Ombudsman

Metropolitan Police — Solicitor’s Department

National Consumer Council

National Lottery Commission

NI Human Rights Commission

Occupational Pensions Regulatory Authority

Office of Telecommunications

Pensions Ombudsman

Planning and Water Appeals Commission

Scottish Consumer Council

Scottish Legal Aid Board

Tax Law Review Committee

Traffic Commissioners

Local Government, Education and Health Authorities

Bradford Metropolitan District Council

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council

Caerphilly County Borough Council

Camden and Islington Health Authority

Camden Local Education Authority

Derby City Council — Welfare Rights Service

Devon County Council

Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council

East Sussex County Council

Essex County Council

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council

Gloucestershire County Council

Hertfordshire County Council

Kingston Hosptial NHS Trust

Kingston upon Hull City Council

Lambeth, Southwark & Lewisham Health Authority

London Borough of Lewisham

London Borough of Redbridge

Lincolnshire County Council

Liverpool Health Authority

London Borough of Ealing

Luton Borough Council

Newcastle and North Tyneside Health Authority

Northumberland County Council

Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Rutland County Council

Salford City Council

Sheffield City Council

Sheffield Health Authority

Shropshire Health Authority

South Tyneside Metropolitan Borough Council

Southampton City Council

Stockport Health Authority

Stockport Metopolitan Borough Council — Welfare Rights Unit

Stockton on Tees Borough Council

Suffolk Health Authority

Academics

Professor Neville Harris, University of Manchester, School of Law

Professor Richard Macrory, Faculty of Laws University College of London

Professor John Raine, School of Public Policy — University of Birmingham

Professor Genevra Richardson, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

Ann Ruff, Middlesex University

Brian Thompson, Liverpool Law School

Professor Nicholas Wikely, University of Southampton

Individuals

Rt Hon The Lord Archer of Sandwell, QC (former chairman, Council on Tribunals)

George Bartlett QC (President of the Lands Tribunal)

Moira Bell

John Butterworth

Lionel Campuzano

Colin Philip England

John Gazey

J David Harris

Barry Knox

Clare Lazarus

John Macmillan

Elizabeth Rocke

James W Sharp

H T Shearing

Linda Spivey

Guy Sutton

Gareth Thomas MP

David Watts

Baroness Whitaker

R A Williams

Overseas

Commonwealth Ombudsman, Australia

Administrative Review Council

Peter Cane, Head of Law Program, Australian National University

Meetings

We also discussed tribunals and their work with: Mr Alan Mackey, Chairman of the Refugee Status Appeals Authority (New Zealand); Mr Paul Wood, Chairman of the Valuation Tribunals’ Management Board, and Mr Brian Massen, President of the National Association of Valuation Tribunals; Mr Jonathan Hirst QC, the Chairman of the Bar and members of the Bar Council; Mr John Cridland, Deputy Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry; Mr Justice Carnwath, the Chairman of the Law Commission; Dr Kathryn Cronin, Deputy President of the Australian Law Reform Commission; Mr J.J. Trickett, President of the Queensland Land Court; Mr John Scampion, the Social Fund Commissioner; Mr Justice Sullivan, Chairman of the Tribunals Sub-Committee of the Judicial Studies Board, and other members of the Sub-Committee; Professor Hazel Genn, of the Faculty of Laws, University College, London; Mr Conall MacLynn the President of the Appeals Service, Northern Ireland; Lord Newton of Braintree, the Chairman of the Council on Tribunals; Mr John Monks, Secretary General of the Trades Union Congress; Mr Brian Briscoe, the Chief Executive of the Local Government Association; and Mr Martin Pilgrim, Chief Executive of the Association of London Government.

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