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Commercial Law

The following makes the distinction between courts and tribunal clear:

• Tribunals take a more low key attitude than courts to the laws of evidence.
• Tribunals enable people to converse on their behest and often require them to respond; advocates are allowed only under specific conditions;
• Tribunals also specialize in settling conflicts in a specific field; courts typically have the authority to hear a much wider variety of cases;
• Resolving a dispute in a tribunal is always easier than challenged in court ;
• Tribunals are commonly comprised of a group of 3 persons, out of which only one is a solicitor; the other 2 members are generally specialists in the tribunal's relevant field[1] (Legal Answers, n.d.).

A broad variety of daily legal conflicts are dealt with by VCAT. It has some departments, each specialized in specific categories of cases: administrative, civil, human rights....