Judge's Court Book

Judge's Court Book

1. This notice applies to actions other than Appeals, Taxation objections and Bankruptcy matters.

2. Unless the Court or a Judge otherwise orders, not later than 21 days before the day set down for the final hearing, or, where the hearing date is less than 21 days after the day on which it is set down, forthwith upon being set down, the solicitor for the applicant, after consultation with the solicitor for the respondent, is to file two copies of a court book, to be entitled "Court Book". The Court Book shall contain an index, have consecutively numbered pages and consist of legible photocopies of:

(a) the originating process;

(b) all pleadings;

(c) any affidavit or witness statement to be relied on at the trial (not those for any interlocutory purposes);

(d) all particulars which have been furnished, whether in the form of a court document or a letter, and of the requests for those particulars; and

(e) all documents that are to be tendered in evidence (arranged in chronological order).

3. Where amendments have been made to pleadings, the copy to be included in the Court Book should be in a consolidated form, not showing any matter which has been excised by amendment.

4. This notice does not apply to an interlocutory hearing. On allotting a date for an interlocutory hearing, the Judge may give appropriate directions for copy documents. If no direction is given then the Notice dealing with the filing of exhibits will apply.

5. The costs of preparing a Court Book will be allowed on taxation.