Special Educational Needs: Tribunals
(asked on 16th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Justice:
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what proportion of Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal hearings were adjourned due to a lack of available judiciary in each of the last 12 months for which figures are available.
In the current last 12 months, 25% of hearings were postponed because of the lack of available judiciary. The monthly figures are shown below.
| Postponed for lack of Judge | Proceeded | Total cases | % Cancelled |
Mar-19 | 91 | 373 | 464 | 20% |
Apr-19 | 45 | 289 | 334 | 13% |
May-19 | 100 | 304 | 404 | 25% |
Jun-19 | 138 | 317 | 455 | 30% |
Jul-19 | 75 | 399 | 474 | 16% |
Aug-19 | 7 | 207 | 214 | 3% |
Sep-19 | 129 | 363 | 492 | 26% |
Oct-19 | 150 | 370 | 520 | 29% |
Nov-19 | 159 | 527 | 686 | 23% |
Dec-19 | 175 | 308 | 483 | 36% |
Jan-20 | 186 | 400 | 586 | 32% |
Feb-20 | 166 | 406 | 572 | 29% |
Total | 1421 | 4263 | 5684 | 25% |