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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 21

Order of Conducting Appeal Cases

Order of Conducting Appeal Cases.

24.No Tent or District Officer, or Member of District Council, shall be allowed to appear as an advocate in any appeal from the decision of such Tent, District Officers, or District Council.
25.At the Annual Meeting, after a notice of appeal has been read, the Presiding Officer shall call upon the person appearing on behalf of the appellant, and also on the person responding, to name any personal evidence they wish to produce in the case, and who may have given evidence at the Tent or District Council meeting, when such persons, if present, must retire.
26.The appellant shall then be called upon to sustain his appeal; and after hearing the case, and previous to discussion upon any resolution, all persons interested, as appellant and witnesses, and respondent and witnesses, shall retire.
27.Representatives may, through the Presiding Officer, cross-examine all parties interested.
28.The Presiding Officer, after the parties interested have retired, shall call upon the meeting to decide upon the merits of the case.