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THE ADMIRALTY & COMMERCIAL COURTS GUIDE 2006
Appendix 8
Standard Pre-Trial Timetable
1.   [Standard disclosure is to be made by [*], with inspection [*] days after notice.]
2.   Signed statements of witnesses of fact, and hearsay notices where required by rule 33.2, are to be exchanged not later than [*].
3.   Unless otherwise ordered, witness statements are to stand as the evidence in chief of the witness at trial.
4.   Signed reports of experts
  
(i)   are to be confined to one expert for each party from each of the following fields of expertise: [*];
(ii)   are to be confined to the following issues: [*];
(iii)   are to be exchanged [sequentially/simultaneously];
(iv)   are to be exchanged not later than [date or dates for each report in each field of expertise].
5.   Meeting of experts
  
(i)   The meeting of experts is to be by [*];
(ii)   The joint memorandum of the experts is to be completed by [*];
(iii)   Any short supplemental expert reports are to be exchanged [sequentially/simultaneously] by not later than [date or dates for each supplemental report].
6.   [If the experts' reports cannot be agreed, the parties are to be at liberty to call expert witnesses at the trial, limited to those experts whose reports have been exchanged pursuant to 4. above.] [Or: The parties are to be at liberty to apply to call as expert witnesses at the trial those experts whose reports they have exchanged pursuant to 4. above, such application to be made not earlier than [*] and not later than [*].]
7.   Preparation of trial bundles to be completed in accordance with Appendix 10 to the Commercial Court Guide by not later than [*].
8.   The provisional estimated length of the trial is [*].
9.   Within [*] days the parties are to attend on the Clerk to the Commercial Court to fix the date for trial which shall be not before [*].
10.   The progress monitoring date is [*]. Each party is to lodge a completed progress monitoring information sheet with the Clerk to the Commercial Court at least 3 days before the progress monitoring date (with a copy to all other parties).
11.   Each party is to lodge a completed pre-trial checklist not later than 3 weeks before the date fixed for trial.
12.   [There is to be a pre-trial review not earlier than [*] and not later than [*]].
13.   Save as varied by this order or further order, the practice and procedures set out in the Admiralty & Commercial Courts Guide are to be followed.
14.   Costs in the case.
15.   Liberty to restore the Case Management Conference.