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HOW LONG WILL THE TRIBUNAL TAKE TO MAKE A DECISION ON MY CASE?
The time taken to make a decision on your case will depend on a range of factors including when your case is allocated to a Member to conduct the review.
Cases are allocated to Members according to priorities set by legislation and in directions issued by the Principal Member. For a list of priorities see PMD3/2011 - Caseload and Constitution Policy. While cases are generally allocated in priority and date of lodgement order, cases may from time to time be allocated as part of a taskforce or targeted approach. Such allocations enable batches of cases raising similar issues to be dealt with efficiently and allow the tribunals to deal with a greater volume of cases than would otherwise be the case. News about these initiatives can be found here.
Once a case has been allocated to a Member, the Member will decide how to proceed with the review. For information about the review process and ways you can help ensure your case is handled efficiently see, for MRT PMD1/2011 - Efficient Conduct of Reviews, and for RRT PMD 2/2011 - Efficient Conduct of Reviews.
The calculator below may help you to estimate the length of time it will take the Tribunal to make a decision on your case. The calculator gives you a date within which a decision is likely based on when you lodged the application, the type of decision you have asked the Tribunal to review and the time within which 70% of cases involving that type of decision were decided by the Tribunal during the previous six months. A glossary explaining the decision categories used by the calculator is available here.
The Tribunal may take less or more time to make a decision on your case. You should use this calculator as a guide only and you should not rely on it to make plans.
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