June 2018 chronology

See June 2018 update for a thematic summary of these changes.

27/06/18 (1): New Deputy Chamber President. Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, 'Appointment as a Deputy Chamber President of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber: Johnston' (15/5/18) — Sarah Johnston has been appointed as Deputy Chamber President for the mental health jurisdiction, in place of Mark Hinchliffe, with effect from 1/6/18. Official announcement: "The Senior President of Tribunals, the Right Honourable Sir Ernest Ryder, has appointed Sarah Louise Johnston as a Deputy Chamber President of the First-tier Tribunal, Health, Education and Social Care Chamber with effect from 1 June 2018. Notes to editors: Sarah Louise Johnston, aged 51, is known as Tribunal Judge Johnston. She was admitted as a Solicitor in 1998. She was appointed as a Fee-paid Tribunal Judge in 2007 and as a Salaried Tribunal Judge of the Health, Education and Social Care Chamber in 2009."

10/06/18 (2): HESC briefing note published following FOI request. Phillip Sycamore, Mark Hinchliffe and Joan Rutherford, 'Representations to the Tribunals Procedure Committee from the Chamber President, Deputy Chamber President and Chief Medical Member (HESC)' (undated, probably late 2017) — This document, together with Tribunal Procedure Committee, 'Extracts from the Minutes of the Tribunal Procedure Committee' (4/10/17 to 7/3/18), were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the charity Rethink Mental Illness. They relate to the proposal to abolish pre-hearing examinations and have paper reviews in certain cases. They provide information on the rationale behind the proposals which was omitted from the final version of the consultation document - mainly saving money and promoting flexibility in panel composition (judge-only hearings, including for all s2 cases, and judge-only paper reviews, including for many reference cases).

10/06/18 (1): TPC minutes published following FOI request. Tribunal Procedure Committee, 'Extracts from the Minutes of the Tribunal Procedure Committee' (4/10/17 to 7/3/18) — This document, together with Phillip Sycamore, Mark Hinchliffe and Joan Rutherford, 'Representations to the Tribunals Procedure Committee from the Chamber President, Deputy Chamber President and Chief Medical Member (HESC)' (undated, probably late 2017), were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the charity Rethink Mental Illness. They relate to the proposal to abolish pre-hearing examinations and have paper reviews in certain cases. They provide information on the rationale behind the proposals which was omitted from the final version of the consultation document - mainly saving money and promoting flexibility in panel composition (judge-only hearings, including for all s2 cases, and judge-only paper reviews, including for many reference cases).