Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations Northern Territory Consolidated Regulations(1) At a directions hearing or listing hearing, the Judge or Associate Judge may:
(a) order that the parties exchange, or that a party deliver to another party, witness statements; and
(b) give the directions the Judge or Associate Judge thinks necessary to give effect to the order or give directions about the use to which the statements may be put.
(2) A witness statement:
(a) is to be signed by the witness before it is exchanged or delivered in pursuance of an order under subrule (1); and
(b) is to be filed.
(3) Where a witness statement is exchanged or delivered in pursuance of an order under subrule (1), the witness must confine the witness' evidence in chief at the trial to the matters dealt with in the statement.
(4) At a directions hearing or listing hearing at which it is proposed to make an order under subrule (1), a party must be represented by counsel or the solicitor who has actual charge of the proceeding for the party.
(5) In this rule, "witness statement" means a written statement of the evidence in chief of a witness proposed to be adduced from the witness at the trial.