The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber (Procedure) Regulations 2017

Hearings

24.—(1) The First-tier Tribunal must give each party reasonable notice of the date, time and place of a hearing (including any adjourned or postponed hearing) and any changes to the date, time and place of a hearing.

(2) The notice period for a hearing must be no less than 14 days from the date of receipt of the notice, unless the parties consent to a shorter period or there are urgent or exceptional circumstances.

(3) A hearing must be held in public unless the First-tier Tribunal, on its own initiative or on an application by a party, decides that it is necessary to do otherwise in the interests of justice.

(4) Subject to any direction of the First-tier Tribunal, at a hearing—

(a) a party or a party’s representative may conduct the party’s case;

(b) the parties will be heard in such order and, subject to the provisions of these Rules, according to such procedure as the First-tier Tribunal determines; and

(c) a party may make representations, call witnesses, give evidence on his or her own behalf and cross-examine any witness called by another party.

(5) The First-tier Tribunal may exclude from the hearing a person who is to appear as a witness until such time as that person gives evidence if it considers it is fair in all the circumstances to do so.