Rule 59 Notice

1. Whenever an applicant is required to appear before the board of bar examiners at a hearing, the applicant shall be entitled to five days’ notice if served personally with such notice, and to ten days’ notice if served by mail at the applicant’s last-known address or through email to the applicant’s last-known email address.

2. The written notice to appear before the board shall include a general statement of the matters to be inquired into at the hearing and need not specify with particularity matters to be inquired into. If the hearing is concerned with character qualifications for admission, it is sufficient if the general notice contains a statement in substantially the following form: “Matters concerning your character and fitness qualifications for admission to practice will be inquired into at the hearing.”

3. All notices under these rules shall be sent by email to the applicant’s designated email address and will be considered received on the date sent, unless the sender is notified of a delivery failure. If email is unavailable, notice may be given by personal delivery or mail.

4. If testimony from witnesses called by the board, other than the applicant, is to be taken at any hearing before the board, the applicant shall be entitled to notice of that fact. No other notice or statement shall be required.

5. The applicant shall be entitled to be present, together with counsel, if desired, at any hearing before the board at which testimony is taken, during the taking of testimony, and the applicant shall be advised of that fact in any notice as provided by these rules.