review panel. In such cases, the review panel administrator will pass the request to the agency’s liaison officer. Notification of application 1.69. The IRM administrator will send a written acknowledgement to the applicant and will seek their consent to the disclosure of all papers including medical information. The applicant will send their consent to the liaison officer. 1.70. On being notified by the IRM administrator that the applicant has applied for an independent review, the agency must send the documents set out in AAR 30C/AIR 15 to the IRM administrator, within 10 working days of receiving the notification. No minutes of any adoption panel meeting must be sent to the IRM administrator. This is so that the review panel can consider the case without being influenced by the thinking of the original adoption panel, although of course they will know the reason for the decision-maker’s qualifying determination. 1.71. The IRM administrator will send a copy of the papers to the applicant and will send copies of any additional information provided by the applicant before the review 31 panel meeting to the agency’s liaison officer. The exception to this is confidential third party information, such as references, which cannot be shared with the applicant, unless the referees have given their consent. Attending the review panel meeting 1.72. The review panel administrator will invite the applicants to attend the review panel meeting and advise them that they may bring a friend or interpreter with them. The role of the friend is to give moral support to the applicant; it is not the role of the friend to speak on their behalf or to act as an advocate. The applicants will be able to ask the review panel questions and to respond to questions posed by the review panel. 1.73. 