Ms Dorothy Donovan:

It is early days yet but I am very familiar with the Zalewski decision. What was happening in the WRC was the oath was not being taken. Decisions were being redacted. It was not public as such. It was decided that, as it was quasi-judicial, that could not happen.

Our hearings are in private. That is something I will be looking at. Our hearings are done on the basis of written submissions, unlike the WRC. The question of somebody taking the oath is not applicable. We have a provision for oral hearings, of which we have had a couple. In those instances we follow the oath. We sit as a body, often remotely now. It is working well because we are small in number and it is done on the basis of written submissions. The parties do not come and give evidence unless they request an oral hearing and we grant it, or we decide of our own motion that this requires an oral hearing.