Rule 10 Adjournment of hearing

The Committee may adjourn the hearing from time to time as it thinks fit.

The Committee may in particular adjourn any hearing after it has determined that an allegation is well founded for the purposes of allowing time to deliberate on the terms of any conditions of practice order that it is minded to make.

Unless adjourned proceedings are to resume (so far as they are to be in the presence of the parties) at a time, date or place not determined at the time of adjournment, upon adjourning the Committee shall announce the time, date and place of the resumption of proceedings which are to be in the presence of the parties.

If an adjournment of proceedings which are to be in the presence of the parties is to a time, date or place not determined at the time of adjournment, the Registrar shall secure that reasonable notice is given to the parties of the time, date and place of the resumption; and the Registrar shall also notify the person making the allegation of that time, date and place.

If, on a hearing resuming after adjournment, a party who was present in the earlier proceedings is absent, the Committee may proceed in that party’s absence if it is satisfied that the time, date and place of the resumption were announced under paragraph (3) or notice under paragraph (4) was duly given to the party.