Valid from 01/10/2001
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 9A inserted (1.10.2001 for certain purposes for E., 1.12.2001 for all other purposes for E. and 26.8.2002 for W.) by 2001 c. 15, ss. 27(4), 70(2) (with ss. 64(9), 65(4)); S.I. 2001/3294, art. 4(1), Sch. Pt. I (subject to transitional provisions in Sch. Pt. II); S.I. 2002/1919, art. 3(1), Sch. Pt. II
16E+W+SThe Lord Chancellor shall make rules—
(a)giving each party to proceedings before a panel the opportunity of putting his case at a hearing,
(b)entitling each party to be legally represented at any hearing (whether it is held at the instance of the panel or of a party), and
(c)securing that any hearing is held in public unless the practitioner asks for it to be in private (a request which the panel must consider but need not grant).]