The Life Sentence Review Commissioners' Rules 2001

Location and privacy of hearings

9.—(1) Subject to rule 11(9), hearings shall be held at the prison or other place of detention where the prisoner is detained.

(2) Hearings shall be held in private except in so far as the chairman of the panel otherwise directs.

(3) Information about the proceedings and the names of any persons concerned in the proceedings shall not be made public.

(4) The chairman of the panel may admit to the hearing such persons on such terms and conditions as he considers appropriate.