No. 12/2017 LAND Coi'vfMISSION Cap. 20:29 Rules for disputes 6. (1) The Commission shall appoint a legally qualified member of the staff of the Commission or (unless the State or the Secretary is a party to the dispute) ITk'lY avail itself of the services of any legally qualified employee of the Ministry or of the Ministry responsible for justice to be an intermediary between the parties to any dispute to be determined by it. (2) The intermediary shall assist the pmties to the dispute to state the grounds upon which they base their contentions, setting f01th in writing all the facts which each of them considers material and relevant and the contentions in law based thereon. The statements so prepared shall be lodged with the Commission in duplicate within sixty days of the date on which notice of the dispute is given to the Commission. (2) Should the statement of facts in the disputants' statements be admitted by each of them to be sufficient and correct, the intennediary shall within fourteen days of the lodging of the disputants' statements draw up and submit to each of them a document embodying the admitted statement of facts, and the contentions in law of the disputants. Such document shall be called an "agreed case". (3) The agreed case shall without delay be transmitted to the Commission by the intermediary, and the arguments on the dispute and the decision of the Conm1ission shall be confined to the facts admitted. (4) Should the disputants not admit the statement of facts in each of their statements to be correct or sufficient, or should they not come to an agreement with each other on a statement of facts, the intermediary shall without delay after completing their statements lodge with each of them a statement setting out which of the allegations the disputants admit as correct and which they deny, and shall set out all such other facts which the intermediary considers relevant and matetial to the determination of the dispute. (5) Should the disputants not agree in regard to the statement of facts, the intetmediary shall without delay transmit to the Commission the respective statements of the disputants. (6) The Commission shall, after consultation with the disputants, notify them through the intetmediary of a day, time and place for the hearing of the dispute, such day being not less than thirty days after the receipt of the agreed case or of the disputants' statements. (7) If any facts are in dispute any of the disputants may call such evidence and produce such documents at the hearing of the dispute as may be deemed material and relevant. (8) If any patty to a dispute or anyone authorised to appear on his or her behalf does not appear before the Commission at the time and place appointed for the purpose then the Conmlission, upon the request of the other disputant and upon proof that the prescribed notice of the sitting of the Comnlission has been given to the absent disputant, shall uphold the other disputant's case, unless any question of law arises, in which case the Commission may, before giving its decision, call upon the disputant who is present to present argument in support of his or her case. 256