Article 4 Advice of legal assessors tendered at hearings
Any advice tendered by a legal assessor on a question of law at a hearing shall, subject to paragraph (2), be tendered in the presence of every party, or person representing a party, in attendance at the hearing.
Where the Committee or a Panel—
has begun to deliberate on its decision; and
considers that it would be prejudicial to the discharge of its functions for the advice of the legal assessor to be tendered in the presence of the parties or their representatives,
the advice may be tendered in the absence of the parties or their representatives.
Where advice is tendered in the absence of the parties or their representatives in accordance with paragraph (2), the legal assessor who tendered that advice shall—
as soon as practicable after the completion of the deliberations inform each of the parties (or their representatives) in attendance at the hearing of the advice he gave, together with any question which led to that advice; and
subsequently record those matters in writing and give a copy to those parties or their representatives.
Copies of written advice made for the purposes of paragraph (3) shall be available, on application, to every party to the proceedings who does not attend, and is not represented at, the hearing to which the advice relates.