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Article 2 Functions of legal assessors

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Legal assessors shall have the following functions—

(a)

advising the Committee or a Panel on questions of law arising in proceedings before them, and in particular a legal assessor shall, in such proceedings—

(i)

advise the Committee or the Panel on any question of law that is referred to him by the Committee or the Panel, and

(ii)

intervene to advise the Committee or the Panel on an issue of law where it appears to him that, without his intervention, there is the possibility of a mistake of law being made, and

(iii)

intervene to advise the Committee or the Panel of any irregularity in the conduct of the proceedings which comes to his knowledge; and

(b)

advising on the drafting of decisions of the Committee or a Panel (notwithstanding that legal assessors will not themselves be parties to those decisions).