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These Proposals suggested the introduction of :-
(a)
an early questionnaire to help determine what directions are needed in each case
and what timetable the court should set;
(b)
a timetabled series of milestone dates, including the trial date, which are largely
immovable but complemented by the parties being given flexibility to agree
changes to non-milestone time-limits without having to apply to the court; and,
(c)
an approach whereby parties are not permitted to hold up the trial on the
grounds of their own lack of preparedness (in the absence of some exceptional
reason justifying this), such parties having instead to bear the consequences of
their own lack of readiness as the trial proceeds.
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