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It's certainly true that the quality of SENDIST decisions in some cases leave a lot to be desired, and it is astonishing that the Upper Tribunal is still having to adjudicate when the judges get absolutely fundamental SEN law right, as for instance in the recently reported case of B-M v Oxfordshire. However, there has been a noticeable improvement in recent years, not least with some of the originally appointed judge cohort reaching retirement age, and there is also now much more case management. One of the ironies of Mark Small's comment is that active case management would have made life very much more difficult for him when he acted predominantly for local authorities - including Buckinghamshire.