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SUPREME COURT (GENERAL CIVIL PROCEDURE) RULES 2015 - REG 34.05

Associates may adjourn directions hearings

    (1)     Where the Court has fixed a time for a directions hearing, including a directions hearing convened on the Court's own motion, the Associate of the Judge of the Court, Associate Judge or judicial registrar (as the case requires) who is to conduct the directions hearing or, where the directions hearing is to be conducted within a specialist list, an Associate responsible for the specialist list—

        (a)     may by consent adjourn the directions hearing to a particular date or for a particular time or generally, and reserve the costs of the adjournment; and

        (b)     shall record the adjournment and any reservation of the costs by indorsement on the court file.

    (2)     If the directions hearing is adjourned under paragraph (1), the Court may thereafter, whether the costs of the adjournment were reserved or not, make an order in relation to the costs of or occasioned by the adjournment as it thinks fit.

    (3)     Rule 63.22 shall apply to costs reserved under paragraph (1) as if the costs were reserved by order of the Court.



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