Consolidated practice directions

party is served with the notice of the provisional decision. 
26. 
If no party files a request under par 25, the provisional decision 
becomes the final decision on the matter. 
27. 
If any party files a written request under par 25, the case manager 
must list the matter for hearing at a case management conference, and 
notify the parties. 
28. 
At the hearing the provisional decision may be confirmed, varied or 
revoked. The decision made at the hearing is the final decision on the 
matter. 
Varying a case management direction 
29. 
A party may apply to vary a case management direction if the case 
manager gave it at a hearing in his or her absence; or circumstances 
have changed. 
30. 
An application to vary a direction must be made as soon as practicable 
after the applying party becomes aware of the grounds for doing so; 
and that party must give as much notice to the other parties as the 
nature and urgency of his or her application permits. 
31. 
The parties may agree to vary a time limit fixed by a case management 
direction, but only if: 
(a) 
the variation will not: 
(i) 
affect the date of any hearing that has been fixed; or 
(ii) 
significantly affect the progress of the case in any other 
way; 

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5. General Division - Criminal 
 
PD 5.8 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
(b) 
the case manager has not prohibited variation by agreement; 
and 
(c) 
the case manager is promptly informed. 
Timetables 
32. 
The case manager may set a timetable for procedural steps to be taken 
in a case. 
33. 
Unless ordered otherwise the prosecutor must file the indictment and 
prosecution brief within 42 days after the case has been committed for 
trial. 
34. 
Unless ordered otherwise any application for an issue to be 
determined pursuant to s 98 of the 
Criminal Procedure Act
must be 
notified to the court not later than 28 days prior to the date fixed for 
the commencement of the trial. 
35. 
The case manager may: 
(a) 
vary the timetable, whether on his or her own initiative or on a