1. Evidence that a person has been convicted of an offence by or before any court of law, or that any court of law has found proved an offence with which a person was charged, shall, for the purpose of proving that he or she committed the offence or was guilty of any act or conduct in respect of which he or she was so charged or convicted, be admissible in any proceedings before any courtor disciplinary panel established by Statute D or any Special Ordinance under Statute D.
2. Any notice required by Statute D, or by Ordinance or regulation made under it, to be sent to any person may be sent to the address supplied to the Registrary by that person’s College as her or his usual or last known address.
3. If the time for which any member of one of the aforesaid courts or disciplinary panels has been appointed expires after a charge or appeal has been brought before the court or panel but before it has been disposed of, such member shall (and her or his successor shall not) be a member of the court or panel for the purpose of hearing and determining that charge or appeal.
4. If, after a charge or appeal has been brought before any of the aforesaid courts or panels but before it has been disposed of, one or more members of the court or panel become unable or unwilling to act, the remaining members of the court or panel may continue the hearing and determine the case notwithstanding that they do not constitute a quorum for that court or panel.
5. Any person whose case is adjudicated upon by the Discipline Committee shall be given a reasoned decision in writing.
6. Any person who is deprived of membership of the University or whose membership of the University is suspended shall not, during the continuance of such deprivation or suspension, be eligible to be admitted to any degree, or to receive any diploma or certificate, or to be a candidate for any examination; and any person upon whom a penalty other than deprivation or suspension of membership of the University is imposed under any of the provisions of Statute D or any Special Ordinance made under it and who fails to comply with the terms of such penalty shall not be eligible to be admitted to any degree, or to receive any diploma or certificate, or, except with the consent of the Council, to be a candidate for any examination.
7. Every complaint against a person who comes within the jurisdiction of the UniversityTribunal or the Discipline Committee (other than a complaint against a University officer under the Schedule to Statute C)1 which requests that a matter be made the subject of proceedings before either of those bodies shall be considered by the University Advocate, provided that only a member of the Regent House shall be entitled to make a complaint alleging that a person who comes within the jurisdiction of the University Tribunal has committed grave misconduct, and that only a member or an employee of the University shall be entitled to make a complaint alleging that a person who comes within the jurisdiction of either of those bodies has committed a breach of the general regulations for discipline or other offence against the discipline of the University. It shall be the duty of the Advocate to determine whether the person against whom the complaint is made shall be charged and if so before which body; provided that the Advocate shall reject any complaint
No proceedings shall be initiated before any of the University disciplinary panels established by Statute D or any Special Ordinance under Statute D, other than proceedings under the provisions of the Schedule to Statute C,1 unless the Advocate has so determined in accordance with this section and with any Ordinance made under Statute D.
The Advocate shall have the power to refer any student about whom a complaint is made under this section to a body or officer under another University procedure, as set out in the Schedule, and may defer any determination under this section pending that body’s consideration of the matter.