This is a list of tribunals currently in existence in the United Kingdom.

Two-tier system Together, the two general tribunals may be known as the 'two-tier system'.

First-tier Tribunal The First-tier Tribunal hears appeals from regulators and decision-makers in a wide range of subject areas, currently: Alternative business structures (licensed conveyancers) Charity Claims management services Consumer credit Environmental sanctions Estate agents Examination boards Gambling Immigration services Freedom of information and data protection Local government standards Transport Asylum support Social security and child support Criminal injuries compensation Care standards Mental health Special educational needs and disability Primary health lists Tax MPs' expenses War pensions and armed forces compensation Immigration and asylum

Chambers of the First-Tier Tribunal The First-Tier Tribunal is divided into 7 chambers: General Regulatory Chamber Social Entitlement Chamber Health, Education and Social Care Chamber Tax Chamber War Pensions and Armed Forces Compensation Chamber Immigration and Asylum Chamber Property Chamber

Upper Tribunal The Upper Tribunal hears appeals from the First-tier Tribunal and also from the: Independent Safeguarding Authority Traffic commissioners Financial Conduct Authority Pension Regulator Welsh devolved tribunals

Devolved tribunals A number of tribunals exercise functions devolved to the devolved administrations. These tribunals as such replace the functions of UK-wide tribunals in their subject area for their jurisdiction.

Scotland Scotland has a number of tribunals administered by the Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service, as well as some with their own administration.

Scottish two-tier tribunals Scotland has upper and first-tier tribunals, which mirror the UK-wide system (though their remits differ). The Upper Tribunal for Scotland acts as an appeal tribunal equivalent to the Outer House, whilst the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland hears cases at first instance or on appeal from local authorities.

Other SCTS tribunals Mental Health Tribunal for Scotland Pensions Appeals Tribunal Lands Tribunal for Scotland

NHS Scotland tribunals The NHS Tribunal Scotland handles cases referred by Health Boards of fraud and other misconduct by medical, dental, ophthalmic or pharmaceutical practitioners, and considers whether the practitioner should be disqualified from working in the NHS in Scotland.

The National Appeal Panel considers appeals against decisions taken by Health Boards in Scotland on applications to provide NHS pharmaceutical services.

Other Scottish tribunals The Crofters Commission regulates crofting in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

Children's Hearings took over, from the Scottish courts, most of the responsibility for dealing with children and young people under 16, and in some cases under 18, who commit offences or who are in need of care and protection.

Wales Wales maintains several tribunals under the President of Welsh Tribunals. These are: Adjudication Panel for Wales Agricultural Land Tribunal for Wales Mental Health Review Tribunals for Wales Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales Residential Property Tribunal for Wales Welsh Language Tribunal - deal with appeals against decisions by the Welsh Language Commissioner in relation to Welsh Language Standards. The Valuation Tribunal for Wales is self-administered.

England Though not England-only tribunals are not technically 'devolved' as such, they act similarly.

The Valuation Tribunal for England hears disputes related to council tax and business rate valuations on appeals from councils.

NHS England's NHS Resolution FHS Appeal Unit hears, on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health, appeals from decisions of primary care trusts regarding applications to provide NHS pharmaceutical services in England, and also decides contractual disputes between primary care trusts and general practitioners, dentists or opticians.

London Formerly named the Parking and Traffic Appeals Service, Parking adjudicators hear parking appeals against fixed penalty notices issued for parking, bus lane and various traffic sign contraventions within Greater London.

Education

School admission appeal panels School admission appeal panels are set up by local education authorities or school governing bodies to hear appeals against a child's non-admission to their preferred school, or against the school place allotted to them.

School exclusion appeal panels School exclusion appeal panels are set up by local education authorities or school governing bodies to hear appeals against decisions to exclude a child from school.

Schools adjudicators Schools adjudicators decide on objections to published admission arrangements for admitting children to schools, and decide on statutory proposals for school organisation.

Employment

Employment tribunals Employment tribunals hear claims regarding employment including unfair dismissal, redundancy payments and discrimination. They deal with other claims relating to wages and other payments.

Employment Appeal Tribunal The Employment Appeal Tribunal hears appeals from the employment tribunals.

Police Appeals Tribunal The Police Appeals Tribunal hears appeals against the findings of internal disciplinary proceedings brought against members of the police force.

Reserve forces appeal tribunals Reserve forces appeal tribunals hear appeals from members of the United Kingdom reserve forces (the Army Reserve, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, the Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Marines Reserve), or their civilian employers, against decisions on exemption from call-out to active service or regarding financial assistance.

Reserve forces reinstatement committees and umpires Reserve forces reinstatement committees hear applications from members of the United Kingdom reserve forces (the Army Reserve, the Royal Auxiliary Air Force, the Royal Naval Reserve and the Royal Marines Reserve) who consider that they have been refused their right to return to their civilian job following demobilisation. Umpires hear appeals on determinations or orders of the committees.

Finance and commerce

Company Names Tribunal The Company Names Tribunal makes decisions in disputes about opportunistic company name or limited liability partnership name registrations, when someone registers one or more variations of the name of a well-known company in order to get that company to buy the registration from them.

Competition Appeal Tribunal The Competition Appeal Tribunal hears appeals against decisions of the Competition and Markets Authority (including its predecessor bodies, the Competition Commission and the Office of Fair Trading), Ofcom, Ofgem, Ofwat, the Office of Rail Regulation or the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, under the Competition Act 1998, the Enterprise Act 2002, the Energy Act 2004 or related regulations. It also hears appeals of decisions of the Civil Aviation Authority under the Civil Aviation Act 2012; the Payment Systems Regulator under the Payment Services Regulations 2009, Financial Services (Banking Reform) Act 2013 and the Payment Card Interchange Fee Regulations 2015; and about decisions under the Subsidy Control Act 2022.

Foreign Compensation Commission The Foreign Compensation Commission assessed the amount of compensation British claimants were entitled to receive under international and British law for losses suffered abroad. It closed on 29 March 2013.

Office of Fair Trading adjudicators Office of Fair Trading adjudicators hears representations made by consumer credit licence applicants or holders against a notice that the OFT is minded to refuse, revoke or suspend their licence, and also from estate agents who have been notified that the OFT is considering issuing a warning or prohibition order against them.

Health and care

Gender Recognition Panel The Gender Recognition Panel assesses applications from transgender people for legal recognition of the gender in which they now live.

Medical practitioners tribunals Medical practitioners tribunals, organised by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, make decision about the fitness to practice of doctors. The MPTS was set up in 2012 to separate the adjudication function of the General Medical Council from its investigatory function.

Misuse of Drugs Tribunal The Misuse of Drugs Tribunal considers whether there are grounds for prohibiting a health care practitioner from prescribing controlled drugs. The Tribunal has not sat for many years.

Primary care trust discipline committees Primary care trust discipline committees investigate disciplinary matters against various primary health care professionals.

Intellectual property

Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks The Comptroller (also known as the Registrar of Trade Marks or Designs) can decide disputes relating to trade marks, patents and registered and unregistered designs.

Controller of Plant Variety Rights The Controller of Plant Variety Rights considers applications for plant variety rights, and hears representations from others who may be affected by the grant of such rights before making a final decision.

Copyright Tribunal The Copyright Tribunal decides disputes about the terms and conditions of licences offered by, or licensing schemes operated by, collective licensing bodies in the copyright and related rights area.

Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal The Plant Varieties and Seeds Tribunal hears appeals against decisions of the Controller of Plant Variety Rights regarding plant variety rights, against decisions of the Agriculture Ministers on the listing of new varieties of the main agricultural and vegetable species and seeds certification, and against the decisions of the Forestry Commissioners on matters concerning forest reproduction materials.

Property and land

Adjudicator to HM Land Registry The Adjudicators to HM Land Registry deal with disputes arising from applications to register, or change the registration of, land in England and Wales.

Agricultural arbitrators Agricultural arbitrators settle disputes between agricultural landlords and tenants, mostly relating to rent reviews.

Agricultural land tribunals The agricultural land tribunals deal with issues relating to agricultural tenancies, and drainage disputes between neighbours.

Commons commissioners Commons commissioners decide disputes about the registration of common land.

Forestry committees Forestry committees deal with appeals against refusals by the Forestry Commissioners to grant a felling licence or the replanting conditions attached to a felling licence, or against a restocking notice or a felling direction served by the Forestry Commissioners.

Planning inquiries The Planning Inspectorate hears appeals against planning decisions by local authorities, and against enforcement action. It also decides appeals on a range of similar matters, such as tree preservation orders or rights of way orders which have been objected to.

Pensions

Board of the Pension Protection Fund The Board of the Pension Protection Fund considers applications for compensation to occupational pension schemes, with insolvent employers, that suffer a loss that can be attributable to an offence involving fraud or dishonesty.

Pensions Ombudsman and Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman The Pensions Ombudsman makes binding determinations on complaints concerning occupational and personal pension schemes.

The Pension Protection Fund Ombudsman can review certain decisions of the Pension Protection Fund and also deals with appeals from decisions of the Financial Assistance Scheme.

Pensions Regulator