HIGH COURT RULES 2004 - RULE 27.06 Application for directions

HIGH COURT RULES 2004 - RULE 27.06

27.06.1     No later than 14 days after the time referred to in paragraph   27.01(d) for a defendant to file a notice of appearance, the plaintiff must file and serve on all other parties (whether or not those parties have appeared) an application for directions.

27.06.2     The application must be in Form 21.

27.06.3     The plaintiff must file and serve with the application an outline of the submissions that the plaintiff wishes to make on the hearing of the application. The outline must:

  (a)   state why the matter should not be remitted to another court or, if the plaintiff submits that it should be remitted, identify the Court to which it should be remitted; and

  (b)   state what further steps, if any, should be taken in the Court (whether by way of reference of a question of law to a Full Court or otherwise); and

  (c)   specify the times by which, and manner in which, further steps in the Court are to be taken; and

  (d)   set out the precise terms of the orders which the plaintiff submits should be made on the application.

27.06.4     On hearing the application, a Justice may give such directions for the further conduct of the proceeding as appear necessary or desirable for the just and efficient disposition of the matter.