Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) For the purposes
of exercising the jurisdiction conferred by any other rule on a single judge,
a single judge has jurisdiction —
(a) to
make a decision on the application of a party or on the judge’s own
initiative;
(b) to
make a decision on an application on the basis of the documents filed and
without listing the matter for hearing;
(c) to
make a decision, otherwise than pursuant to an application, on the basis of
the documents filed and without listing the matter for hearing, if notice has
been given to the parties;
(d) to
hear and decide an application in the absence of any party other than the
applicant;
(e) to
order some or all of the parties to an application to do one or more of the
following in respect of the application, or any aspect of it specified by the
judge —
(i)
to file, before a date set by the judge, any document
specified by the judge that the judge considers will or may facilitate the
application being conducted and concluded efficiently, economically and
expeditiously;
(ii)
to appear and make oral submissions on a date set by the
judge;
(f) to
limit the time a party has to make oral submissions at a hearing;
(g) to
order some or all of the parties to an appeal to attend a hearing.
[(2) deleted]
[Rule 7 amended: Gazette
22 Aug 2017 p. 4519; SL 2022/60 r. 7;
SL 2022/209 r. 5; SL 2025/76 r. 6.]