Completing a Case Review Form for a Refusal to Issue (RTI) Tribunal
- Anna
- Jul 3
- 3 min read
Learn how to edit and complete your Case Review Form (CRF) for a Refusal to Issue appeal, with clear instructions to ensure accurate and timely submission.
You can find the Case Review Form (CRF) at the back of your Case Directions. This is the long PDF document that Tribunal emailed to you when you lodged your appeal. To turn this into an editable document, follow these steps:
Download the full PDF.
Open a blank document in Word.
Click file.
Select Open.
Locate and select the case directions PDF.
This will transfer the full case directions PDF into an editable Word document. You can now delete all of the information you do not need, leaving just the Case Review Form in an editable Word document.
Completing a Case Review Form for a Refusal to Issue Appeal:
If your child’s name and appeal number are not already included in the form, add them into the beginning of the CRF.
Select this box in Section 1:
Section 2 is not relevant to a refusal to issue appeal:
This is all you need to complete in Section 3:
Section 4, 5 & 6 are not relevant to refusal to issue appeal:
If you believe your evidence will be submitted and therefore the appeal will be ready to be heard by the hearing date, tick the yes box in Section 7. If no, tick no.
If you do not feel the hearing will be ready to be heard, and you want to request a delay to the hearing date, or you want to request a delay to the final evidence date, tick the yes box in Section 8 and fill in the date changes you are requesting. If you feel the appeal will be ready by the hearing date, this section is not relevant.
If you have someone acting for you, they should complete and return the CRF on your behalf. If you do not have someone acting for you tick no and the rest of Section 9 is not relevant.
If it is an online hearing, complete Section 10 to reflect who will be attending. If it is a paper hearing, this section is not relevant, and you can put n/a.
If you are having an online hearing, you are bringing witnesses and you know who they will be, fill in their details in Section 11. If you do not yet know whether you will be bringing witnesses or who they will be, you can put ‘To Be confirmed’.
Section 12 - If your witnesses have not provided a witness statement yet, tick no and explain why here. If they have, tick yes and put n/a in the reasons box.
If you have any special requirements, put them in Section 13. And in Section 14, tick whether you agree to your hearing being heard based on papers rather than via an online hearing that you attend, or not.
Add anything else that you want to tell the Judge to Section 15.
Sign and date your form in Section 16.
And return your completed CRF to SENDIST at
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