Rule 50: the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Property Chamber) Rules 2013/1169: Clerical mistakes and accidental slips or omissions

The Tribunal may at any time correct any clerical mistake or other accidental slip or omission in a decision, direction or any document produced by it, by—

(a) sending notification of the amended decision or direction, or a copy of the amended document, to each party; and

(b) making any necessary amendment to any information published in relation to the decision, direction or document.

The function of this rule was carried out by the correction certificate in the LVT. The new rules are in many ways the Civil Procedure Rules’ little brother, and this rule is the Property Chamber’s reflection of the slip rule at CPR r.40.12, which itself reads:

“(1) The court may at any time correct an accidental slip or omission in a judgment or order.

“(2) A party may apply for a correction without notice.”

This rule cannot be used to try to achieve an alteration to the substance of the Tribunal’s decision. That is the province of the review and the appeal, but as rule 56 – the final rule – makes clear, the Tribunal has considerable flexibility in determining applications for alterations to its decisions.