— This guidance states that reasons "must always be adequate, clear, appropriately concise, and focused upon the principal controversial issues on which the outcome of the case has turned". The overall focus is on conciseness - with assurances that the Upper Tribunal will approach reasons challenges benevolently and that "a challenge based on the adequacy of reasons should only succeed when the appellate body cannot understand the Tribunal's thought process in making material findings".
Full details available at: https://www.mentalhealthlaw.co.uk/Practice_Direction_from_the_Senior_President_of_Tribunals:_Reasons_for_decisions_(4_June_2024)?id=210126-2236