Section Sch2-18 — Immigration Act 2009: Public access to hearings

18 Public access to hearings (1) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3), every oral hearing is open to the public. (2) The Tribunal may receive any particular evidence in private, or deliberate in private as to its decision on the appeal or as to any question arising in the course of the proceedings. (3) If an appeal is brought by a claimant, a refugee or a protected person, or a person formerly recognised as a refugee or a protected person, the Tribunal must conduct the hearing in private. (4) The Tribunal may make an order prohibiting the publication of any evidence received by it, or any report or description of the proceedings or of any part of the proceedings, in respect of any appeal or matter before the Tribunal. (5) This clause is subject to section 259 .