The Employment Appeal Tribunal Rules 1993

Oral hearings

29.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this rule and to rule 30, an oral hearing at which any proceedings before the Appeal Tribunal are finally disposed of shall take place in public before, where applicable, such members of the Tribunal as (subject to paragraph 16 of Schedule 11) the President may nominate for the purpose.

(2) The Appeal Tribunal may sit in private for the purpose of—

(a) hearing evidence which in the opinion of the Tribunal relates to matters of such a nature that it would be against the interests of national security to allow the evidence to be given in public; or

(b) hearing evidence from any person which in the opinion of the Tribunal is likely to consist of —

(i) information which he could not disclose without contravening a prohibition imposed by or under any enactment; or

(ii) any information which has been communicated to him in confidence, or which he has otherwise obtained in consequence of the confidence reposed in him by another person; or

(iii) information the disclosure of which would cause substantial injury to any undertaking of his or any undertaking in which he works for reasons other than its effect on negotiations with respect to any of the matters mentioned in section 244(1) of the 1992 Act.