Rights of Persons Under Review (PUR) at Hearings

Detailed information on the PSR scheme is published in the document Your Guide to the PSR Process

Subject to any reasonable limitations or restrictions the Committee may impose, the PUR may:

1. attend the hearing;
2. be accompanied by a lawyer and/or another adviser;
3. call witnesses to give evidence (other than evidence as to his or her character);
4. produce written statements as to his or her character;
5. question a person giving evidence at the hearing;
6. address the Committee on questions of law arising during the hearing; and
7. make a final address to the Committee on questions of law, the conduct of the hearing and the merits of the matters to which the hearing relates.

If a lawyer accompanies the PUR, the lawyer may, subject to any reasonable limitations or restrictions imposed by the Committee:

1. give advice to the PUR;
2. address the Committee on questions of law arising during the hearing; and
3. after the taking of evidence, make a final address to the Committee on questions of law, the conduct of the hearing and the merits of the matters to which the hearing relates.

The PUR may be accompanied by a person other than a lawyer. If the PUR is accompanied by both a lawyer and a non-legal adviser, either one can make the final address to the Committee but not both.