Critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages that flow from the use of tribunals as opposed to ordinary courts.
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Critically evaluate the advantages and disadvantages that flow from the use of tribunals as opposed to ordinary courts. Tribunals are judicial assemblies, set up by various Acts of Parliament as an alternative to the court system, to rule on the operation of the particular schemes established under those Acts. If it is established by the state, they are generally described as 'administrative tribunals', while 'domestic tribunals' are by non state institutions such as professional and sporting association and trade unions as part of their disciplinary procedures. The 'administrative' label shows that these tribunals are established to perform judicial function as part of the administration of some government scheme or programme. There are almost 100 different types of administrative tribunals, and within each type, there may well be hundreds of individual tribunals operating locally all over the country to hear particular cases. The reason for growth of tribunals since 1945...

