Consolidated practice directions

INSPECTION 
7. 
Inspection of documents discovered be completed by ______________ 
[date]. 
 
AMENDMENT OF PLEADINGS 
8. 
Unless the Case Manager otherwise orders: 
(a) 
any party may without leave amend any pleading at any time 
prior to the date seven (7) weeks before the day fixed for the 
commencement of the trial by filing and serving the amended 
pleading; and 
(b) any other party may without leave make consequential 
amendments within seven (7) working days from service of the 
amendment by filing and serving the amended pleading. 
9. 
Within seven (7) days after the service on a party of a pleading 
amended under par 8, that party may apply to the Case Manager to 
disallow the amendment. 
10. 
Unless the Case Manager otherwise orders, the costs incurred and 
thrown away by reason of a party amending a pleading under par 8(a) 
be the other parties' in any event. 
 
 
COSTS DISCLOSURE (FOR STRATEGIC CONFERENCE) 
10A. 
By 4.00 pm on _____________ [date] the solicitors for each party give 
their respective clients a memorandum setting out: 
(a)
the legal costs and disbursements (including any expert fees) that 
the party has incurred to the date of the memorandum; 
(b)
the future legal costs and disbursements (including any expert 
fees) that it is estimated that the party will incur to the end of 
trial (setting out the estimated duration of trial); and 
(c)
the estimated party and party costs recoverable by, or payable 
by, the party in the respective cases of success or failure at trial. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.1.2.2 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
10B. 
By 4.00 pm on ____________ [date] the solicitors for each party file 
and serve a copy of the memorandum provided to their client in 
accordance with par 10A, such information to be provided on a 
confidential basis. 
10C.
Access to the memorandum is restricted to the Court and to the