Art. 2. Auditors and Relators

Can. 1428 §1. The judge or the president of a collegiate tribunal can designate an auditor, selected either from the

judges of the tribunal or from persons the bishop approves for this function, to instruct the case.

§2. The bishop can approve for the function of auditor clerics or lay persons outstanding for their good

character, prudence, and doctrine.

§3. It is for the auditor, according to the mandate of the judge, only to collect the proofs and hand those

collected over to the judge. Unless the mandate of the judge prevents it, however, the auditor can in the meantime

decide what proofs are to be collected and in what manner if a question may arise about this while the auditor

exercises his or her function.

Can. 1429 The president of a collegiate tribunal must designate one of the judges of the college as the ponens or

relator who is to report about the case at the meeting of the judges and put the sentence into writing. For a just

cause the president can substitute another in place of the original relator.