0 a special court or group of people who are officially chosen, especially by the government, to examine (legal) problems of a particular type:
She took her case to an immigration appeals tribunal.
1 a special court chosen, esp. by a government or governments, to examine a particular problem:
An international tribunal of judges was established to investigate alleged war crimes.
2 a special court or group of people who are officially chosen to examine problems of a particular type:
an appeal/an arbitration/a disciplinary tribunal
take sb/sth to a tribunal She took her employer to an industrial tribunal for wrongful dismissal.
He went to the industrial tribunal to seek redress for the way his employers had discriminated against him.
She remitted the case to a new tribunal for reconsideration.
Normally these tribunals are open to the public.
Whenever one of these parties appeal to a tribunal that shares its genre of nationalist/ humanist discourse, the other side has already lost.
Judicial independence of the highest tribunal can be achieved institutionally by several means.
Arguably they are therefore subject to de facto detention but have no automatic right of appeal to a court or other appropriate tribunal for review.