Consolidated practice directions

 
TRIAL DOCUMENTS 
 
26. 
No later than ______________ [date] each party will by notice in 
writing to each other party, specify the documents they intend to 
tender at the trial, and if inspection has not been directed, where the 
documents may be inspected. Only those documents which will be 
tendered at trial should be included within the bundle, and a party 
including a document within the bundle should be able to justify to 
the Court the purpose for which the document is to be tendered upon 
request.
26A. 
Each document proposed by a party for inclusion within the trial 
bundle shall, in the absence of specific objection by another party, be 
taken to be: 
(a) 
Authentic; 
(b) 
Prepared by its apparent author; 
(c) 
In the case of a communication, sent by the person appearing 
to have sent it, and received by the persons appearing to have 
received it on or about the date which it bears. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.1.2.2 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
27. 
No later than ______________ [the date five (5) working days 
thereafter] each party will advise each other party in writing which of 
the specified documents may be tendered by consent, and whether the 
authenticity of any of the remaining documents (specify which) is 
disputed and give reasons in writing as to why consent to tender the 
remaining documents is withheld. 
28. 
No later than ______________ [the date five (5) working days 
thereafter] each party other than the plaintiff will deliver to the 
plaintiff a copy of each of the documents which that party intends to 
tender and which were not included in the plaintiff's notification of 
the documents he intends to tender at the trial. 
29. 
No later than ______________ [the date five (5) working days 
thereafter], the plaintiff will file a book of documents containing 
legible copies of each of the documents to be tendered at the trial by 
the parties and shall serve a copy of the book of documents to each of 
the other parties. 
30. 
The book of documents shall satisfy the following formal 
requirements: 
(a) 
each page of the book will be paginated. 
(b) 
the book will contain an index of its contents.
(c) 
the index will list the documents in chronological order. If a 
document is undated it shall be placed according to its 
approximate date to be derived from its contents. 
(d) 
the index shall include at least the following descriptive fields 
or categories: 
(i) 
book number (which must run sequentially from 
beginning to end) 
(ii) document date
(iii) document description
(iv) book page number at which the document commences
(v) book page number at which the document ends
(e) 
there should be no duplication of documents without good 
reason. 
(f) 
attachments to documents should appear immediately after 
the document notwithstanding that they bear a date preceding 
the date of the document. 
(g) 
each individual document should be separated in the physical 
bundle by a separate tab. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.1.2.2 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
31. 
Not later than seven (7) days prior to the date fixed for trial the 
plaintiff shall by email to the Associate to the trial Judge, enquire 
whether the trial Judge requires a hard copy of the book of documents 
for the exclusive use of the trial Judge. 
32. 
On the commencement of the trial the plaintiff will have ready a copy 
of the book of documents for the exclusive use of witnesses in the 
course of their examination. 
33. 
A party will have ready for production at the commencement of the 
trial the originals of the documents, copies of which are included in 
the book of documents, if requested to do so by notice given at least 
seven (7) days prior to the commencement of the trial. 
34. 
No later than ______________ [the date three (3) working days prior to 
the date fixed for the commencement of trial] counsel for the plaintiff 
will file a chronology of relevant events. Counsel for any party other 
than the plaintiff may also file a chronology of relevant events.