Cap. 20:29 LAI'.'D CmvThHSSION No. 12/2017 which he or she considers material and relevant and the contentions in law based thereon. Such statement shall be called the "appellant's case" and shall be lodged with the Commission in duplicate within sixty days of the date on which notice of appeal is given to the Secretary and other person against whom the appeal is made ("the respondent"). (2) Should the statement of facts in the appellant's case be admitted by the respondent to be sufficient and conect, the respondent shall within fomteen days of the lodging of the appellant's case draw up and submit to the appellant a document embodying the admitted statement of facts, the contentions in law of the appellant and the contentions in law of the respondent. Such document shall be called an "agreed case". (3) The appellant and the respondent may agree to a statement of facts, each setting out his or her respective contention in law based on such facts, in the form of an agreed case. (4) The agreed case shall be transmitted to the Commission by the respondent within fourteen days of submitting the agreed case to the appellant in terms of subrule (2), and the arguments on appeal and the decision of the Commission shall be confined to the facts admitted. (5) Should the respondent not admit the statement of facts in the appellant's case to be correct or sufficient, or should he or she not come to an agreement with the appellant on a statement of facts, the respondent shall within thirty days of the receipt of the appellant's case lodge with the appellant a statement setting out which of the allegations he or she admits as conect and which he or she denies, and shall set out all such other facts which he or she considers relevant and material to the dete1mination of the appeal. The respondent shall also state his or her contentions in law. Such statement shall be called the "respondent's case". (6) Should the appellant and the respondent not agree in regard to the statement of facts, the respondent shall transmit to the Commission the appellant's case and the respondent's case within thirty days of the lodgement of the respondent's case with the appellant. (7) The Commission shall, after consultation with the parties, notify them of a day, time and place for the hearing of the appeal, such day being not less than thitty days after the receipt of the agreed case or of the appellant's and respondent's cases. (8) If any facts are in dispute either the appellant or the respondent may call such evidence and produce such documents at the hearing of the appeal as may be deemed material and relevant. (9) If neither the appellant nor anyone authorised to appear on his or her behalf appears before the Commission at the time and place appointed for the purpose then the Commission, upon the request of the respondent and upon proof that the prescribed notice of the sitting of the Commission has been given to the appellant, shall uphold the respondent's case, unless any question of law arises, in which case the Commission may, before giving its decision, call upon the respondent for argument in support of his or her case. 255