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Section 13:
Case management timetabling and milestones
Proposal 18
A rule should be adopted requiring the parties each to fill in and file a questionnaire shortly
after the defendant serves its defence, providing the court with specified items of information
to enable it to assess the procedural needs of the case with a view to fixing a timetable and
giving appropriate directions for the conduct of the case including directions fixing
milestones in the progress of the case which are, save in the most exceptional circumstances,
immovable.
Proposal 19
Rules should be adopted which give the court maximum flexibility when devising timetables
and directions and which also encourage the parties to make reasonable procedural
agreements without requiring reference to the court unless such agreements may impinge
upon specified milestone events in the prescribed timetable.
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