--(1) The court may not adjourn a case management conference without fixing a new date, time and place for the adjourned case management conference.
--(2) Where the court is satisfied that either-
----(a) the parties are in the process of negotiating, or are likely to negotiate a settlement; or
----(b) the parties are attending or have arranged to attend a form of ADR procedure, the court may adjourn the case management conference to a suitable date, time and place to enable negotiations or ADR proceedings to continue.
--(3) The court may give directions as to the preparation of the case for trial if the case management conference is adjourned.
--(4) Where the case management conference is adjourned under paragraph (2) each party must notify the court office promptly if the claim has been settled.
--(5) Any adjourned case management conference and, so far as practicable, any procedural applications made prior to a pre-trial review must be heard and determined by the judge or master who conducted the case management conference.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 140 of 2000.
Several rules apply to periods of time falling before or after the first case management conference. The point at which the first case management conference comes to an end is not always clear (see Premnath Bowlah v. The Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago Civ. App. 261 of 2009 and Tysa Company v. Guardian General Insurance Company Limited Civ. App. 116 of 2010). It is suggested that clarification should always be sought from the Judge at the end of a case management conference to determine whether that case management conference is being adjourned finally or adjourned to continue.
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