a tribunal operate alongside the court system and are an important part of the legal system
they were created to help enforce entitlement to certain social rights
a tribunal must be used instead of court proceedings
examples of tribunals include
employment - most common
mental health tribunals
tribunals were created by the industrial training act 1964 but it is now governed by a mixture of primary legislation e.g Employment tribunals act 1996, and secondary legislation e.g The EmploymentTribunalsRegulations2013