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<p>This information is not held centrally.</p><p> </p><p>HMCTS statistics are not
calculated from receipt of the appeal to the hearing, but from receipt of the appeal
to the disposal of the case. An appeal is not necessarily disposed of at its first
hearing. The final disposal decision on the appeal may be reached after an earlier
hearing had been adjourned (which may be directed by the judge for a variety of reasons,
such as to seek further evidence), or after an earlier hearing date had been postponed
(again, for a variety of reasons, often at the request of the appellant). An appeal
may also have been decided at an earlier date by the First-tier Tribunal, only for
the case to have gone on to the Upper Tribunal, to be returned once again to the First-tier,
for its final disposal.</p><p> </p>
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