Notices to practitioners issued
by the Vic District Registrar
Judge's
Court Book
Note: this notice was revoked on 25 September 2009.
1. This notice applies to actions other
than Appeals, Taxation objections and Bankruptcy matters.
2. Unless the Court or a Judge otherwise
orders, not later than 21 days before the day set down
for the final hearing, or, where the hearing date is less
than 21 days after the day on which it is set down, forthwith
upon being set down, the solicitor for the applicant,
after consultation with the solicitor for the respondent,
is to file two copies of a court book, to be entitled
"Court Book". The Court Book shall contain an
index, have consecutively numbered pages and consist of
legible photocopies of:
(a) the originating process;
(b) all pleadings;
(c) any affidavit or witness statement
to be relied on at the trial (not those for any interlocutory
purposes);
(d) all particulars which have been
furnished, whether in the form of a court document or
a letter, and of the requests for those particulars;
and
(e) all documents that are to be
tendered in evidence (arranged in chronological order).
3. Where amendments have been made
to pleadings, the copy to be included in the Court Book
should be in a consolidated form, not showing any matter
which has been excised by amendment.
4. This notice does not apply to an
interlocutory hearing. On allotting a date for an interlocutory
hearing, the Judge may give appropriate directions for
copy documents. If no direction is given then the Notice
dealing with the filing of exhibits will apply.
5. The costs of preparing a Court Book
will be allowed on taxation.
