The National Crime Squad (Senior Police Members) (Appeals) Order 1998

Attendance of complainant at hearing

19.—(1) This article shall apply in relation to a hearing where the charge as respects which the appeal is brought is in respect of a complaint or referred matter and the appeal is not against punishment only.

(2) The Registrar shall cause notice of the date of the hearing to be sent to the complainant, at the same time as such notice is sent to the parties under article 15.

(3) Notwithstanding anything in article 17 but subject to paragraph (5), the NCS appeals tribunal shall allow the complainant to attend the hearing while witnesses are being examined, or cross-examined, on the facts alleged in the charge and, if the tribunal considers it appropriate to do so on account of the age of the complainant, or otherwise, it shall allow him to be accompanied by a personal friend or relative who is not to be called as a witness at the hearing:

• Provided that—

  (a)

  where the complainant is to be called as a witness at the hearing he and any person accompanying him shall not be allowed to attend before he gives his evidence; and

  (b)

  where it appears to the NCS appeals tribunal that a witness may in giving evidence disclose information which, in the public interest ought not to be disclosed to a member of the public, it shall require the complainant and any person allowed to accompany him to withdraw while that evidence is given.

(4) Where the appellant gives evidence, then, after the person representing the NCS Service Authority has had an opportunity of cross-examining him, the Chairman of the tribunal shall put to him any questions which the complainant requests should be so put and might have been properly so put by way of cross-examination and, at his discretion, may allow the complainant himself to put such questions.

(5) Subject as aforesaid, the complainant and any person allowed to accompany him shall neither intervene in, nor interrupt the hearing; and if he or such a person should behave in a disorderly or abusive manner, or otherwise misconduct himself, the Chairman of the tribunal may exclude him from the remainder of the hearing.