Article 33 Hearings in public

Subject to the following paragraphs of this rule, all hearings by the Tribunal shall be in public unless it considers that there are exceptional reasons which make it desirable that a hearing, or any part of a hearing, should be in private.

Where any question relating to the financial standing of any person is to be considered during a hearing, the Tribunal may, if that person so requests, exclude the public from the part of the hearing during which that question is considered.

A member of the Council on Tribunals or of the Scottish Committee of the Council may be present in that capacity at any hearing by the Tribunal notwithstanding that the hearing, or part of the hearing, is not in public, and may remain present during the deliberations of the Tribunal but shall take no part in those deliberations.