When is the deadline for application to set aside a first-tier tribunal decision?
The catalogue records a 28 days period from Date the Tribunal sent notice of the decision to the party, or if later, the date it sent notice of the reasons for the decision. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 28 days
- Trigger
- Date the Tribunal sent notice of the decision to the party, or if later, the date it sent notice of the reasons for the decision
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- Extendable under rule 6(3)(a). Relief is in any event discretionary and conditional: rule 51(1) requires the Tribunal to consider it "in the interests of justice" AND one of the rule 51(2) conditions (a document not sent or not received in time by a party or by the Tribunal, a party or representative not present at a hearing, or some other procedural irregularity) to be satisfied.
- CURRENCY - 2025 CHANGE. Rule 51(1) was amended with effect from 30 May 2025 by the Tribunal Procedure (Amendment) Rules 2025 (S.I. 2025/561), rule 9(2)(a), to allow the Tribunal to set aside "on the application of a party or on its own initiative". The same instrument inserted rule 51(4), requiring the Tribunal to notify each party in writing as soon as reasonably practicable w