Respondent’s notice
25.—(1) A respondent may provide a respondent’s notice to an appeal.
(2) A respondent shall, unless given permission to cross-appeal, cease to be a respondent if no respondent’s notice is provided within the time specified in paragraph (3) or such further time as may be allowed under rule 5(3)(a) (power to extend time).
(3) Any respondent’s notice must be in writing and must be sent or delivered to the Tribunal and the appellant so that it is received no later than 1 month after the date on which the Tribunal sent—
(a)notice that it had given permission to appeal to the respondent; or
(b)a copy of the notice of appeal to the respondent.
(4) The respondent’s notice must be signed and dated and must state—
(a)the name and address of the respondent and, if represented,—
(i)the name and address of the respondent’s representative; and
(ii)the professional capacity, if any, in which the respondent’s representative acts;
(b)an address where documents for the respondent may be sent or delivered;
(c)the grounds on which the respondent relies in opposing the appeal or in support of a cross-appeal; and
(d)whether the respondent wants the case to be dealt with at a hearing.
(5) If the respondent provides a respondent’s notice to the Tribunal later than the time required by paragraph (2), the notice must include a request for an extension of time and the reasons why the notice was not provided in time.
(6) If, in any proceedings, the Tribunal receives a respondent’s notice from more than one respondent, it must send a copy of each notice received to each of the other respondents.