The purpose of CIMSPA’s Appeals Panel is to review appeals raised through CIMSPA’s formal process, determining whether the grounds for appeal outlined in CIMSPA’s appeals policy have been met and issue appropriate outcomes.
Panel’s role
The Appeals Committee and subsequent Appeals Panel role is to:
Hear appeals arising from decisions made by CIMPSA in relation to a member or partner, where the appeal has arisen from a Tier Four complaint and has met the specified requirements for a hearing.
- Hear an appeals escalation where the original appeal was heard by the Disciplinary Panel
- Consider the points and evidence raised through the investigation and base their conclusion on the following (but not limited to) mitigating circumstances:
- A procedural defect
- Failure to follow due process
- Insufficient weighting of a sanction or decision made
- Serve as the final decision-making body for every appeal and confirm the following:
- Confirm a decision made by the Membership Assurance Committee or Disciplinary Panel where it concludes the original decision is correct.
- Overturn a decision made by the Membership Assurance Committee or Disciplinary Panel where it concludes that the original decision was incorrect.
- Substitute with its own decision any decision made by the Membership Assurance Committee, or Disciplinary Panel which it is required to overturn.
- Provide confirmation of the results of the Appeals Panel to the following:
- Member/partner
- Membership Assurance Committee / Disciplinary Panel
- CIMSPA executive
- Provide appropriate feedback to support decisions made by Appeals Panels to all relevant stakeholders.
