Tribunal bundles guidance

​Request 736069521  

Does a central policy, protocol or guidance exist which the Governance Team applies when determining inclusion or exclusion of documents in Tribunal bundles? If such guidance exists, please disclose it. If such guidance does not exist, please provide a formal confirmation to that effect.  

Response  

The Governance Team at Employment, Social Security and Housing has its own internal guidance regarding the documents that form part of the department’s submission to the Social Security Tribunal, the Social Security Medical Appeal Tribunal or the Income Support Medical Appeal Tribunal where a hearing of one of those Tribunals is to be held to consider an appeal. 

Please refer to the attached document titled “Appeal Handling Procedure – Submission to Tribunal – Appeal Documentation Checklists”. ​

Freedom of Information Respon​se 736069521 -Submission to Tribunal - Appeal documentation check lists.pdf​

There is no central policy, protocol or guidance for this. Therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of information (Jersey) Law 2011 applies as that requested information is not held. 

Articles Applied 

Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority” 

For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if – 

(a)     it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or 

(b)     it is held by another person on behalf of the authority 

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