When is the deadline for notice of the time and place of the hearing?

The selected ordinary outer limit for first-tier tribunal is 21 days from actual hearing date. Give parties and relevant notified persons the ordinary minimum hearing notice.

Responsible actor. First-tier Tribunal.

Actual hearing date

Give parties and relevant notified persons the ordinary minimum hearing notice

Establish this exact ordinary England tribunal branch and every actual source condition. A statutory window boundary does not prove actual application receipt or a listed hearing.

1. Count back from the actual hearing and preserve the whole minimum interval. A later completion date cannot shorten required notice.
2. The ordinary minimum is 21 calendar days. Section 66(1)(a) proceedings instead require at least three working days. Consent, urgency or exceptional circumstances permit a shorter actual notice.

Count back from the actual hearing and preserve the whole minimum interval. A later completion date cannot shorten required notice.

The ordinary minimum is 21 calendar days. Section 66(1)(a) proceedings instead require at least three working days. Consent, urgency or exceptional circumstances permit a shorter actual notice.

Fictitious example

Fictional actual hearing date on Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every listed branch condition is explicitly assumed. The retained operative regime remains unchanged for this fictional event.

Fictitious established facts. These examples do not establish eligibility, effective service, relief or a direction.

Source branch condition1

The actual event and statutory patient or procedural status are established.

Source branch condition2

The operative current provision has not been displaced by a later commencement, applicable order or direction.

Source branch condition3

This is an England First-tier Tribunal mental-health case or its ordinary Upper Tribunal appeal, not a Wales tribunal procedure.

Source branch condition4

No extension, shortening, urgent exception or varied timetable displaces this ordinary rule.

Source branch condition5

This selects the ordinary non-section-66(1)(a) hearing branch.

Source branch condition6

No consent, urgency or exceptional circumstance authorizes shorter notice.

Source branch condition7

The actual hearing date and entitled recipients are established.

• Establish this exact ordinary England tribunal branch and every actual source condition. A statutory window boundary does not prove actual application receipt or a listed hearing.
• Responsible authority's statement and reports - three weeks concerns responsible authority, actual making of a reference, or receipt of the application or reference copy and send or deliver the practice-direction documents so the tribunal receives them. Secretary of State's statement in other restricted patient cases - three weeks concerns secretary of state, actual receipt of documents provided under rule 32(7) and send the prescribed information and any observations to the tribunal. Application to set aside a decision disposing of proceedings concerns party seeking procedural set-aside, actual date the tribunal sent notice of the decision to that party and make a written set-aside application received by the tribunal.

• Give parties and relevant notified persons the ordinary minimum hearing notice
• Confirm the applicable tribunal and actual receipt, dispatch or hearing event required by the selected source.
• Check any relevant order, direction, extension and later statutory commencement.
• The ordinary minimum is 21 calendar days. Section 66(1)(a) proceedings instead require at least three working days. Consent, urgency or exceptional circumstances permit a shorter actual notice.