New Arrangements for Tribunals
DCA Press Release
17 November 2006
The Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Bill will be published
today and includes proposals that will:
* Improve the working of the tribunals system by providing a new
statutory framework, offices and bodies that will deliver
improvements in services to over 500,000 people who use tribunals
each year;
* Widen the range of people eligible to apply to become judges,
increasing judicial diversity;
* Unify and provide a new statutory framework for law on civil
debt recovery, a certification process for civil enforcement
agents, and relief measures for debtors unable to pay their
debts;
* Reform the enforcement of compulsory purchase orders.