Consolidated practice directions

 
Witness Outlines 
 
6.
Where witness statement orders have not been made, the case manager 
will ordinarily order the provision of a witness outline (witness outline 
orders). 
7.
A witness outline must be directed 
only to matters in issue
. 
8.
A witness outline must clearly identify all the topics in respect of which 
evidence will be given and 
the substance of that evidence
, including the 
substance of each important conversation. 
9.
Where a witness refers to a document in a witness outline, they must 
identify the document by its description and its discovery number or, if 
an order has been made for a trial bundle to be filed, by a description of 

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the document and by the page number in the trial bundle. If an order has 
been made for an electronic trial bundle to be filed, the document must 
be referred to by the document number assigned to it and the page 
number within that document.
10.
Where a witness outline is ordered, the case manager will ordinarily 
order that no party may use any part of the contents of that document for 
the purpose of cross-examination of the witness without leave of the trial 
Judge. 
 
Witness Statements 
11. Where witness statement orders have been made, each witness 
statement is, in written form, the evidence that a witness would 
otherwise give orally and, subject to any contrary order, will, when 
adopted, stand as the evidence in chief of the witness. 
12. The evidence contained in a witness statement must:
(a)
be directed only to matters in issue; 
(b)
be in admissible form, in accordance with the rules of evidence and 
the
Evidence Act 1906
(WA); and 
(c)
include at the end of the statement the following verification: