Hong Kong Regulations

MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW TRIBUNAL RULES - RULE 20

Privacy of proceedings

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The tribunal shall sit in private unless the mentally incapacitated person
requests a hearing in public and the tribunal is satisfied that a hearing in
public would not be contrary to the interests of the mentally incapacitated
person. (L.N. 4 of 1989; L.N. 100 of 1998)

(2) When the tribunal sits in private it may admit to the hearing such persons
on such terms and conditions as it considers appropriate.

(3) The tribunal may exclude from any hearing or part of a hearing any person
or class of persons, other than a representative of the applicant or of the
mentally incapacitated person to whom documents would be disclosed in
accordance with rule 11(3), and in any case where the tribunal decides to
exclude the applicant or the mentally incapacitated person or their
representatives or a representative of the responsible  authority, it shall
inform the person excluded of its reasons and record those reasons in writing.
(L.N. 100 of 1998)

(4) Except in so far as the tribunal may direct, information about proceedings
before the tribunal and the names of any persons concerned in the proceedings
shall not be made public.