Consolidated practice directions

Interlocutory disputes 
 
21. A fundamental objective of the CMC List, and indeed the general 
practices and procedures of the Court, is the discouragement of 
interlocutory disputes with all means at the Court's disposal, including 
costs orders in appropriate cases. The procedure specified in O 4A r 3 is 
generally to be followed, as is the approach set out in PD 4.7.1. 
22. Where an interlocutory dispute cannot be avoided, it is wherever 
possible determined by the Case Manager after the exchange of written 
submissions, either on the papers or following a short case management 
conference at which the time permitted for oral argument is generally to 
be limited by direction to 20 minutes or perhaps half an hour for each 
party. The legal representatives of the parties are actively encouraged to 
comply with O 59 r 9 by meeting face to face or at least conferring by 
telephone. 

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4. General Division - Civil 
PD 4.1.2
 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
22A. Counsel seeking to appear remotely (by video or audio conference) at an 
interlocutory hearing should note the requirements set out in PD 1.2.6 
par 30 and 31A. 
 
Trial bundles 
23. For some time, the Court has actively discouraged the practice of 
including too many documents within the trial bundle. However, the 
inclusion of unnecessary documents continues to be a common practice. 
24. When the trial bundle is prepared, only the documents which a party 
will 
tender should be included within the bundle. To that end: 
(a) 
The usual order of pre-trial directions will require witness outlines 
or witness statements to be prepared referring to documents by 
their discovery number (without copying the documents referred 
to in the witness outline or witness statement). After the trial 
bundle has been prepared, the parties will be directed to provide 
the court with another copy of each witness outline or witness 
statement, annotated so as to show the trial bundle reference in 
respect of each document referred to in the statement. 
(b) Directions will generally be made specifying that any document 
included in the trial bundle will, in the absence of specific 
objection, be taken to be authentic, to have been prepared by its 
apparent author, and in case of a communication, to have been 
received by the persons appearing to have received it and to have 
been sent and received on or about the date which it bears.
Accordingly, witness outlines or witness statements should not be 
prepared merely for the purpose of proving any of those matters, 
in the absence of specific objection. 
(c) Each party must give consideration to the purpose for which any 
documents they propose for inclusion in the trial bundle is to be 
tendered, and be able to explain that purpose to the court upon 
request. 
(d) In an appropriate case, the court may make orders with respect to 
the preparation of the trial bundle so that the cost of documents 
unnecessarily included in the trial bundle may fall upon the party 
responsible, or the party's solicitors.