By Onyekachi Umah, Esq., LL.M, ACIArb(UK)

At several times, both judicial and non-judicial bodies/committees are set up to investigate and determine the rights and obligations of persons. It may be by employers, schools, professional bodies, religious groups, unions, associations or government. The members of such administrative bodies or committees may not be educated or lawyers but they have a duty to uphold fair hearing. In investigations, hearings and deliberations of such committees, there may be oral hearing or exchange of documents or even both. This work examines whether investigations and hearings by administrative bodies (committees/commissions/panels/groups) must be done orally or by exchange of documents or both and the implications.
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