Administrative Tribunals Characteristics

A clerk at a Mumbai railway office is passed over for promotion and wants to challenge it. Does he file a suit in the City Civil Court, or does his case go somewhere else altogether? For most government employees the answer is somewhere else: a tribunal that does nothing but service disputes. What makes a tribunal different from a court, why does the State create them, and who watches over them?

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An administrative tribunal is a body created by statute to decide disputes in a specialised field, with judicial functions but outside the ordinary court hierarchy, and it remains subject to the High Courts' and the Supreme Court's supervision.

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