On April 28, 2017, the Federal Court released a Notice to the Parties and the Profession: Trial Management Guidelines. The Federal Court has adopted these Guidelines in order to ensure the most efficient, expedient and proportionally fair use of trial time for actions scheduled for five days or longer. The Guidelines address both pre-trial case management (including timing of motions and trial management conferences, and timing of exchange of materials between parties and with the Court) and trial conduct (including limiting expert examination in chief, use of slide presentations with experts, encouraging use of witness statements and fact stipulations, compendia in electronic and paper format). The current Guidelines are further to the Federal Court's previous Notice to the Profession, reported here, which aimed to increase proportionality in complex litigation before the Court.
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