Procedural hearing

A Procedural Hearing is to be held to consider the following applications:

1. A hearsay application
2. An application for the Full Hearing to be held in private
3. An application for the Teacher to be anonymised

Should any members of the public or press wish to attend the hearing (virtually), they must contact GTC Scotland (by emailing regulation@gtcs.org.uk) no less than 48 working hours prior to the start time of the hearing (i.e. by 10.00 am on 19 August 2026) in order to request the link to the public hearing. Any requests to attend the hearing beyond this time cannot be facilitated and will not be responded to. Attendees will require to have the Microsoft Teams application downloaded to their device.
 
When requesting a link to the public hearing, the following information will require to be provided:

•  The full name of the person who will attend the hearing
• Date of hearing
• Email address to which we can send the Microsoft Teams link
• Contact number we can reach you on if there are any technical issues during the hearing
• Reason for wishing to observe (for example: press)

Please note that only the person named who has requested access to the hearing, and who has been provided with the link, will be permitted to enter the hearing, unless a substitute attendee has been intimated in advance.

As with hearings held in our office, members of the public and press in attendance are reminded not to interrupt proceedings and it is strictly prohibited for an observer to audio or video record, screen shot, photograph, copy or share our hearing proceedings. Under Rule 1.7.10, a Panel may decide to exclude any person where the Panel is of the opinion that his/her presence is disruptive or otherwise detrimental to proceedings being conducted in line with the general objectives. Furthermore, members of the public and press will not be permitted access to the private discussions of the Panel.

Please note that an order may be made by a Panel that part of this hearing is to be held in private. At those stages, any members of the public/press in attendance at the hearing will be instructed to disconnect from the call and will only be able to re-join the call room once the private session has concluded.

Please read the remote hearing observer guidance on our website.