--(1) The court must give directions as to the conduct of the trial in order to ensure the fair, expeditious and economic trial of the issues.
--(2) In particular the court may-
----(a) direct either party to provide further information to the other;
----(b) give directions for the filing by each party and service on all other parties of one or more of-
--------(i) a skeleton argument;
--------(ii) a chronology of relevant events;
--------(iii) a summary of any legal propositions to be relied on at the trial;
--------(iv) a list of authorities which it is proposed to cite in support of those propositions;
--------(v) a core bundle of documents (that is, a bundle containing only such documents which the trial judge will need to pre-read or to which it will be necessary to refer repeatedly at the trial);
--------(vi) an agreed statement of facts;
--------(vii) an agreed statement of the basic, technical, scientific or medical matters in issue; and
--------(viii) an agreed statement as to any relevant specialist area of law, which statement shall not be binding on the trial judge;
----(c) direct whether or not there shall be any opening or closing addresses and the time to be allocated to each;
----(d) give directions as to the procedure to be followed at the trial;
----(e) decide on the total time to be allowed for the trial; and
----(f) direct how that time shall be allocated between the parties.
Notes
Amended by Legal Notice 233 of 2005.
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