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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is being criticized for being too similar to the court. How is this the case and what can be done
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The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is being criticized for being too similar to the court. How is this the case and what can be done to separate the two? The Administrative Appeals Tribunal is responsible for hearing appeals of an administrative nature in an inquisitorial manner, as opposed to the court system of judicial review which acts as an adversarial system. The inquisitorial system to supposed to provide individuals with an informal and fair process without as many of the procedural requirements in the court. The members question parties where the tribunal conducts investigations to find the true fact unlike facts being based on the findings from the parties. The AAT is described by Harris (1991) as containing the main elements of the General Administrative Appeal Tribunal Model: "first, a single tribunal empowered to review the merits of administrative decisions, particularly those in which discretion and, therefore, policy may be involved; secondly,...
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