Judicial Review is a remedy of last resort, which means that in most cases where there is an alternative route to challenge a decision, such as an appeal to the First Tier Tribunal, a claimant will be expected to pursue that route. However, in some situations it may be possible to bring a Judicial Review claim even where there is technically a right of appeal to a Tribunal. This can happen where the alternative remedy is not effective, such as where the consequences of waiting for the appeal to be heard before the First Tribunal would be so serious that waiting for the hearing would deny the claimant any meaningful benefit of success at that hearing. An example of this could be where Housing Benefit has been refused and a client is facing a possession claim under mandatory rent arrears grounds., but by the time the Housing Benefit appeal is concluded it will be too late because a Court would have made a possession order. In this situation a claim for Judicial Review may be appropriate. As a result of welfare reforms and problems with the administration of benefits there can be situations in which individuals are left without any benefits and are at risk of destitution. In such cases sometimes Judicial Review will be the only effective remedy.