The Labour Relations Agency Arbitration Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2012

Non-attendance at the hearing

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82.  If, without showing sufficient cause, a party fails to attend or be represented at a hearing, the arbitrator may:

(a)continue the hearing in that party’s absence or in the absence of that party’s representative, and in such a case shall take into account any written submissions and documents that have already been submitted by that party; or

(b)adjourn the hearing.