Charities Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 28:"Page 8, line 41, at end insert—" ““(   )   for matters to be determined without an oral hearing in specified circumstances;”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, in most proceedings before the tribunal the parties will present their own cases in an oral hearing, but there may be some circumstances—for example, where there is extreme urgency for a decision, or where all parties feel that they have nothing to add to what they have said in the papers they have put before the tribunal—where an oral hearing is not at all necessary. Therefore, we think it is sensible to enable the Lord Chancellor’s rules to provide for a matter before the tribunal to be determined without an oral hearing in specified circumstances. This amendment achieves that simple objective. I beg to move.