{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-scotland-act-2014/section-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-scotland-act-2014/section-72.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/10",
  "legislation_title": "Tribunals (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tribunals-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/72",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Hearings in cases",
  "text": "(1) Tribunal Rules may make provision about hearings in a case before the Scottish Tribunals.\n(2) Rules making provision as described in subsection (1) may (in particular)—\n(a) provide for certain matters to be dealt with—\n(i) without a hearing,\n(ii) at a private hearing,\n(iii) at a public hearing,\n(b) require notice to be given of a hearing (and for the timing of such notice),\n(c) specify persons who may—\n(i) appear on behalf of a party in a case,\n(ii) attend a hearing in order to provide support to a party or witness in a case,\n(d) specify circumstances in which particular persons may appear or be represented at a hearing,\n(e) specify circumstances in which a hearing may go ahead—\n(i) at the request of a party in a case despite no notice of it having been given to another party in the case,\n(ii) in the absence of a particular member chosen to exercise the function of deciding any matter in a case,\n(f) enable two or more sets of proceedings to be taken concurrently at a hearing in certain circumstances,\n(g) allow for an adjournment of a hearing for the purpose of giving the parties in a case an opportunity to use a process of negotiation, mediation, arbitration or adjudication for resolving a dispute to which the case relates,\n(h) allow for the imposition of reporting restrictions for particular reasons arising in a case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 72 in force at 1.4.2015 by S.S.I. 2015/116, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/10/section/72",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:42:54.004820+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}