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Reviewed 14 October 2010

Copyright Tribunal announcement

The Government today announced its intention to merge the Copyright Tribunal with the Tribunals Service. For full details of the government's review External Link of public bodies is available on the BIS website.

As part of its wider commitment to increasing the accountability of public bodies, reducing their number and cost, and handing power and ownership back to local communities, the Government is keen to amalgamate as many Tribunals as possible within the Tribunals Service, which was created to provide a unified administration for the tribunals system.

The Copyright Tribunal will benefit from being served by this specialist organisation and from being seen to be part of the judicial system. It will retain the necessary technical expertise. Copyright Tribunal users should see little or no disruption to its operations.

A timetable for the move has not been set.

Date of release: 14 October 2010