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(a)
an early questionnaire, to help determine what directions are needed in the case
and what timetable the court should set;
(b)
a timetabled series of milestone dates including the trial date which are largely
immovable, but complemented by the parties having flexibility to agree to time-
limit changes for matters falling between milestone dates; and,
(c)
an approach whereby parties are not permitted to hold up the trial on the
grounds of their own lack of preparedness (in the absence of some exceptional
reason justifying this), but with such parties having instead to bear the
consequences of their own lack of readiness as the trial proceeds.
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