Procedural fairness requires only that a party be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard, not that the party actually obtain a hearing on the merits. A tribunal is not obliged to adjourn and search for an absent party who was regularly informed of the hearing date. Where a tribunal correctly determines it lacks jurisdiction to rehear a matter, that jurisdictional ruling cannot retroactively render the original hearing procedurally unfair.
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