Consolidated practice directions

 
Practice at trial 
17. Where witness statement orders have been made, the practice at the trial 
will ordinarily be as follows: 
(a) The witness will be called and asked to identify himself or herself, 
and also the witness statement concerned. The Judge will then ask 
the opposing counsel whether there are any objections to any parts 
of the witness statement. 
(b) All objections will be dealt with, and where an objection is 
successful, the witness will be requested to delete the inadmissible 
material from the statement. 
(c) The witness statement will then be tendered and admitted as an 
exhibit. 
18. Where witness outline orders have been made, the practice at the trial 
will ordinarily be that the witness' evidence in chief is given orally, in the 
usual way. Objections will be dealt with in the course of the witness' 
evidence.
19. Where a witness statement order or witness outline order is made, a 
party may not, without leave, adduce from the witness evidence in 
chief other than evidence included in the witness statement, or in 
relation to a topic referred to in the witness outline, as the case may be. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
4.6
Civil Judgments, Orders and Reasons for Decision 
4.6.1
General 
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1. 
Refer to the Practice Directions at Part 8 'Reasons for Decision'. 
2. 
From 1 March 2018, the Court will operate an electronic file in the 
General Division (Civil).
It is the Court’s expectation that all ord
ers and 
directions made in the General Division (Civil) will be confirmed by the 
relevant judicial officer, and will usually be extracted at the time the 
order is confirmed. If an order is not confirmed by the Court, then par 3 
below will apply. 
3. 
The attention of practitioners and self-represented persons in General 
Division - Civil matters is drawn to the following: 
(a) Order 43 r 2. This rule provides that certain orders need not be 
extracted unless otherwise directed. It is frequently overlooked in 
relation to orders for extensions of time or for leave to amend 
pleadings. 
(b) Order 43 r 6(2). The effect of this sub-rule is that the Registrar may 
decline to settle a judgment or order without leave of the Court 
unless the requisite documents are filed within seven (7) days after 
it is given or made. It is desirable that judgments and orders 
should be taken out promptly; and where there is any undue delay, 
it is likely that the Registrar will require leave to be obtained. 
(c) Settling judgments and orders. Final judgments and orders should 
not be extracted without notice to the other party. In a proper case, 
the Registrar will give an appointment under O 43 r 7 to settle the 
draft judgment or order in the presence of the parties. Where the 
Registrar considers that it is not necessary for an appointment to be 
given, he will provisionally settle the draft and endorse it: 'Settled 
subject to objection by______________', naming a date at least seven 
(7) days ahead, and cause a copy to be served on the other party.
Where a party objects to the draft, an appointment to settle it will 
be given on notice to him. If no objections are received by the time 
fixed by the Registrar, the settled draft will be returned for 
engrossment by the solicitors for the party extracting the judgment 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.6.1 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
or order. This practice will apply to all final judgments and orders, 
and also to interlocutory orders that are unusual or complex. 
(d) Order 43 r l6. This rule provides a convenient method of obtaining 
a consent order without the necessity of either the issue of a case 
management request or of an attendance in chambers. 
(e) Difference between judgments and orders. An order of the Court 
or a Judge is generally enforceable in the same manner as a 
judgment to the same effect (judgments are defined to include
 
an 
order of a court for the purposes of the 
Civil Judgments Enforcement 
Act 2004 
- see s 3). The origin of the distinction between the two is 
historical: see vol I, Seton's Judgments and Orders, (7th ed) 
cccxxxix. The rules require an order for the recovery of money, 
land or goods to be expressed in the form of a judgment (O 1 r 6(l) 
and the Second Schedule, Forms 32 to 44). With the exception of 
Form No. 100 (order of escheat), no other form of final judgment or 
final order is prescribed; but the practice is to express all other 
decisions, whether final or interlocutory, as orders of the Court, 
that is to say, they must be in accordance with Form No. 78 in the 
Second Schedule and be signed by the Registrar.