Before a qualified support person for testimony is stripped of that qualification, what must the Minister of Justice tell them, and what chance to respond does the provision give?
General information · Not legal advice
Material to check
In the practice file we read the written notice of intended revocation and the reasons it sets out, any record of the support person appearing at the Ministry of Justice, and an opinion document or written explanation submitted in response.
These are types of material to look for, not evidence already verified by PRO SE.
Where readings differ
One reading takes the notice as a firm precondition: where the Minister of Justice intends to revoke a qualification, the Minister must notify the support person of the intended revocation and its reasons, and the notified person then may appear at the Ministry of Justice to make a showing or submit an opinion document on that showing.
Another reading stresses that the response is written as an option — the provision says the notified person 'may' appear or submit, so a file showing only the notice and no response still satisfies this step, and the provision leaves open what standard a showing must meet or how detailed an opinion document must be.
Your judgment
When the later written notice of cancellation is issued, how can the file show whether the reasons it gives were the reasons notified at the start?
PRO SE does not make this decision or keep a case record on this public site.When to reconsider
We look at this again if the provision is amended to change the notice or response steps, or if a decision clarifies what a showing must establish, or if the file gains the support person's own opinion document.