Tribunals  
Are a Star Chamber Court.

The Tribunal Procedure Rules?  There are none. It is a star chamber.

This means there is no guarantee that you will get a fair hearing. Generally the chair person is legally qualified and so may, because he is in the habit, provide some procedural fairness by accident, not by design. Tribunals are created by an Act. The Act specifies principles that are to be applied to the decisions made by the Tribunal. If you want Procedural Fairness (the Rule of law to Apply) (Due process) then you must enforce it upon the Tribunal by:-

Note: In the Mental Health Review Tribunal arguing that you are not mentally ill is the psychiatrist’s word against yours and you lose. So this does not work. You have to show there is something improper in how the psychiatrist has conducted his diagnosis and arrived at his diagnosis. Then show that you are not mentally ill. This is where the law and its processes are wrong. The question is not whether you are mentally ill, but how good you are at presenting the arguments that you are not mentally ill.

The Laws of Evidence do not apply to Tribunals so.
1. Make sure you know the purpose of the hearing. Ask the Chair person to explain if you are unsure.

2. Ask to know what information / documents the Tribunal already has by way of submissions etc that will be used in the making of their determinations. You can argue that you should be given an opportunity to contest this information if you feel it is necessary.

3. Ask for the opportunity to contest the information / documents where you think necessary and make a note of the issues you want to speak to.

4. If there is malice and hearsay in those documents ask that the rules of evidence be applied because the malice and hearsay will cause prejudice and cause unfairness in the hearing. ie eliminate that which you do not want if you can argue against it. (it is a pack of lies based on hearsay and malice etc.)

5. Try to identify the issues that are to be considered up front. Ask the Chair how he is going to make his decision, what rules are going to be applied. The Chair person may bring out the act and discuss the section of the Act which applies to this hearing.

6. When you are up against an expert, like a psychiatrist, ask for the facts and reasons they have used to arrive at their decision with that you are appealing. If there are none then argue that their opinion cannot be contested because it is unfair because it does not provide any facts and reasons that can be contested. Use statements like Undue weight may have been given to hearsay and malice and as such the decision is one made of hearsay and malice and should not stand. Point out that the information against you comes from a person skilled in manipulating people with lies and innuendo. 

Tribunal Law: Read the Queensland Tribunal Rules for one such tribunal.