Tribunals in New Zealand Perhaps more importantly, there is simply a lack of cohesion. some tribunals have heavy workloads, some hardly ever sit. There is duplication of effort in the servicing and administration of them; some have much less support than they need. Many tribunals separately organise their own information programmes and their own training, such as it is. There is no oversight of the system as a whole, and no overall leadership. Tribunals lack the voice they should have in the justice sector. The paper then sets out various solutions which have been adopted in other jurisdictions, in particular australia, Canada and the united Kingdom. it also sets out the reform options which Cabinet has agreed should be investigated in this country. i n the next stage of this project the Ministry of Justice and the l aw Commission will be analysing these options, and deciding which of them, or which combination of elements of them, best suits this count We call for comments from the public on the issues we have raised in this paper. These comments will help us in the next, crucial, stage of the project. Geoffrey Palmer President