Mr. William Prasifka:

The fact of the matter is that oral hearings are taking up more and more of my time. I am becoming effectively less a chief executive of the organisation and really a hearing office. That is the reality. The difficulty is that one is talking about the interface of constitutional rights and legally binding decisions. Under the current jurisprudence, if one were to eliminate our requirement to have an oral hearing one would have to take away our ability to have legally binding decisions. That obviously is a very significant trade off.