SAM MITCHELL and Trent Cotchin will be awarded their retrospective Brownlow Medals at a function in Melbourne on Tuesday, December 13.

They were declared winners of the game's most prestigious individual honour after Essendon's Jobe Watson chose to hand his medal back earlier this month. Watson saved the AFL Commission from having to decide whether to strip the midfielder of the prize after he was found guilty of doping by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The ceremony will be part of the AFL Commission's meeting that day, when the hearing into Greater Western Sydney's charge of conduct unbecoming over the club's role in the Lachie Whitfield affair will also take place.

The presentation will start at noon, with proceedings expected to take an hour. Later in the afternoon, Mitchell and Cotchin will have a private gathering.

Mitchell was at Hawthorn in 2012 but was traded to West Coast at the end of the 2016 season, while Cotchin was named Richmond captain in 2013 after his breakout season the previous year.

Former Essendon sports scientist Stephen Dank, who was handed a lifetime ban by the AFL Anti-Doping Tribunal that prevents him from working in any sport, declared on Monday that Bombers skipper Watson "will have his Brownlow back" after a hearing to the AFL Appeals Board. 

The hearing was due to take place on Monday but Dank did not show up after claiming a life-threatening condition to a family member prevented him from attending.

It will take place on December 1 as long as he provides proof of the illness to the Appeals Board by 5pm on Friday.