Consolidated practice directions

Registrars' powers & CMC List cases 
 
6. 
Registrars do not have the power to: 
(a) admit cases to the CMC list (O 4A r 14); nor 
(b) make orders in relation to cases admitted to the CMC list (O 4A r 5, 
r 15). 

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4. General Division - Civil 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
4.1.2
Case Management - the Commercial and Managed Cases 
(CMC) List 
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The CMC List 
 
1. 
Cases that require more intensive supervision than that currently 
provided by the Registrars pursuant to div 2 and div 4 of O 4A of the 
Rules of the Supreme Court 1971
are managed in the Commercial and 
Managed Cases List (the CMC List) pursuant to div 2 and div 3 of O 4A. 
2. 
Cases in the CMC List will, as far as possible, be docket managed by the 
Judge or Master likely to hear the trial of the case. 
Entry onto the CMC List 
 
3. 
Other than the cases automatically admitted to the CMC List under O4A 
r 11 of the 
Rules of the Supreme Court 1971
, any case will, in general, be 
admitted to the CMC List if:
(a) there is a significant prospect of interlocutory dispute;
(b) it has manifested a propensity for interlocutory dispute by such a 
dispute being listed in Judges or Masters Chambers; 
(c) in the opinion of a CMC List Judge or Master, it is suitable for more 
intensive case management for any other reason (such as the need 
for expedition, the complexity of the issues, the likely length of trial, 
etc); or 
(d) one party wants the case admitted to the List for any of these or 
other good reasons. 
4. 
Apart from cases automatically admitted to the CMC List by the Court 
as outlined in O 4A r 11 of the 
Rules of the Supreme Court 1971
, entry into 
the CMC List is by an application made by a letter to the Court (O 4A 
r 14). In addition to the information required under O 4A r 14(3), the 
letter must include an estimate of the likely length of hearing, in the 
event the matter proceeds to trial. The letter to the Court must also set 
out the details of any order or direction sought or file with the letter as 
an attachment a minute in Form 78 of any order sought (O 4A r 5B(1)(b)).
Such requests should ordinarily be filed as soon as a party is of the view 
that the requirements in O 4A r 14(2) and par 3(d) are satisfied. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.1.2
 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
5. 
As soon as possible after entry onto the CMC List, each party to 
proceedings, other than a party who has requested entry to the List in 
accordance with par 4 above, must provide the Associate to the 
managing Judge or Master with their estimates of the likely length of 
hearing, in the event the matter proceeds to trial. From time to time the