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I reiterate my commitment to ensuring that the unique characteristics of all the tribunals that are transferring into the new structure will be protected.
I think that you are in a minority of one, Hanzala. I am quite happy to die in a ditch. As I have said, I do not want to take this to a vote—I always try to get a consensus.
There is a big variation between companies that have improved their systems and, on the other side of the coin, companies that might not have been able to do that.
David Stewart mentioned diabetes, which is a really good example: the transfer of that service to a different model has come from disciplines working together.
The staff and judiciary from the courts that were closed transferred to the other courts and we knew that we had capacity in them to deal with the business.
We are pretty confident that, if EU law on that is simply transposed into UK law, we will be able to transfer our current protection to a slightly different protection under the same regulatory framework.