Case Management Orders
[ch 1: pages 34-35]In most routine cases, the next step, after the ET1 and ET3 have been filed and the claim has successfully navigated Initial Consideration, is for the tribunal judge to issue a “standard” case management order — a list of the steps the parties must take to carry the claim forward in the tribunal. Here are the usual directions in a standard case management order:
• for both parties to make a list of the relevant documents they hold, to provide copies to the other party and to prepare an agreed, indexed and paginated “bundle” (i.e. a photocopy set of the relevant documents). This set of documents will be the documentary evidence placed in front of the tribunal at the final hearing of the claim;
• to prepare and then exchange (i.e. simultaneously swap) witness statements. These set out each party’s truthful account of what happened; and
• for the parties to attend a hearing for the claim to be tried and decided.