Appellate Tribunal procedural autonomy: guided by natural justice with civil-court powers and enforceable orders. The Appellate Tribunal is not bound by the Code of Civil Procedure but shall be guided by natural justice and may regulate its own procedure; it has specified civil court powers (summoning, discovery, affidavits, requisitioning records, issuing commissions, dismissing or setting aside defaults) and may enforce its orders as if they were decrees, sending them for execution to the appropriate local court; proceedings are deemed judicial and the Tribunal is treated as a civil court for certain criminal procedural and penal provisions.
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Appellate Tribunal procedural autonomy: guided by natural justice with civil-court powers and enforceable orders.
The Appellate Tribunal is not bound by the Code of Civil Procedure but shall be guided by natural justice and may regulate its own procedure; it has specified civil court powers (summoning, discovery, affidavits, requisitioning records, issuing commissions, dismissing or setting aside defaults) and may enforce its orders as if they were decrees, sending them for execution to the appropriate local court; proceedings are deemed judicial and the Tribunal is treated as a civil court for certain criminal procedural and penal provisions.
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