A per­son who is law­ful­ly de­tained dur­ing the state of emer­gency has a right to have his or her case re­viewed by the Re­view Tri­bunal es­tab­lished un­der Sec­tion 11 (1) of the Con­sti­tu­tion. Any de­tainee who is de­sirous of hav­ing his or her case re­viewed by the tri­bunal has to make a writ­ten re­quest for a re­view dat­ed and signed by the de­tainee, the de­tainee's rep­re­sen­ta­tive or le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tive and have the re­quest lodged ei­ther at the Reg­istry of the Supreme Court, Hall of Jus­tice, Port-of-Spain; the Sub-Reg­istry of the Supreme Court, Hall of Jus­tice, San Fer­nan­do; the Sub-Reg­istry of the Supreme Court, Hall of Jus­tice, To­ba­go; or the Sec­re­tari­at of the Re­view Tri­bunal, Hall of Jus­tice in Port-of-Spain.

Se­nior Coun­sel Gilbert Pe­ter­son is chair­man of the tri­bunal, while Se­nior Coun­sel Deb­o­rah Peake and Ra­j­man­lal Joseph are mem­bers. Ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the Re­view Tri­bunal, the pro­ceed­ings would be held in cam­era at the Hall of Jus­tice. Each re­view will be heard sep­a­rate­ly and in the ab­sence of oth­er de­tainees. The state­ment said: "Where the de­tainee or the de­tainee's rep­re­sen­ta­tive is un­able to sign the re­quest for the de­tainee's case to be re­viewed by the Tri­bunal, the de­tainee or the de­tainee's rep­re­sen­ta­tive may place his or her mark." When the re­quest is re­ceived, the sec­re­tary of the tri­bunal will no­ti­fy the Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty min­is­ter who will sub­mit to the sec­re­tary the grounds up­on which the de­tainee is de­tained. In­for­ma­tion will be re­layed to de­tainees by the sec­re­tary.

De­tainees will be en­ti­tled to present his or her case to the tri­bunal in per­son or through a rep­re­sen­ta­tive or a le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tive. Those who can be present at the re­view are the de­tainee's rep­re­sen­ta­tive or le­gal rep­re­sen­ta­tive; a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the min­is­ter; the law en­force­ment of­fi­cer in­to whose law­ful cus­tody the de­tainee is placed for the pur­pose of the de­tainee's at­ten­dance at the re­view; and any oth­er per­son whom the tri­bunal may con­sid­er ap­pro­pri­ate. The state­ment said the tri­bunal will not be bound by the rules of ev­i­dence or the rules of prac­tice or pro­ce­dure that ap­ply in a court of law. De­tainees will be asked to con­firm their re­quest for re­view. They will be fur­nished with a copy of the guide­lines is­sued by the Re­view Tri­bunal and a copy of the Emer­gency Pow­ers Reg­u­la­tions, 2011.