Western Australian Consolidated Regulations Western Australian Consolidated Regulations (1) A Court may do all
or any of the following for the purposes of controlling and managing cases and
trials —
(a)
extend the time for complying with any of these regulations, any practice
direction, or any order made by the Court (even if the time for complying has
expired), or shorten it;
(b)
adjourn or bring forward a hearing to a specified date;
(c) stay
any case, either generally or until a specified date;
(d)
consolidate cases;
(e) try
2 or more cases on the same occasion;
(f)
order any aspect of a case or a counterclaim in a case to be dealt with as a
separate case;
(g)
order that particular issues be tried in a particular order;
(h)
order that an issue not be tried;
(i)
order that an issue be tried separately;
(j) give
judgment against a claim after a decision is made on a separate trial of a
preliminary issue;
(k) hold
a hearing by audio link or video link (as those terms are defined in the
Evidence Act 1906 section 120);
(l)
allow a party to amend any document lodged by the party;
(m)
order a party to provide additional information to that in or attached to its
claim, whether by disclosing or providing documents or by answering
interrogatories;
(n)
order parties —
(i)
to exchange the written statements of the evidence that
is anticipated will be given by witnesses;
(ii)
to confer, to attend before a clerk or other person or to
take other measures, before trial, to try to settle the case or identify the
issues that need to be tried;
(iii)
to attend before the Court before trial to deal with case
management, interlocutory and pre‑trial issues;
(iv)
to do anything that in the Court’s opinion will or
may facilitate the case being conducted and concluded efficiently,
economically and expeditiously;
(o) by
order, limit —
(i)
the time a party has at trial to examine,
cross‑examine or re‑examine a witness, or to make oral
submissions, or to present its case;
(ii)
the number of witnesses (including expert witnesses) that
may be called in relation to an issue;
(iii)
the length of a trial;
(p)
refuse to admit into evidence a document that a party has deliberately not
disclosed or provided in accordance with these regulations;
(q) as
to expert witnesses —
(i)
order a party to disclose the nature and substance of the
expert evidence to be given by any expert witness the party intends to call;
(ii)
order an expert witness to disclose the advice given to,
and the work done in relation to the case of, the party that intends to call
him or her;
(iii)
refuse to allow an expert witness to be called without
the leave of a Court;
(iv)
refuse to admit the evidence of an expert witness that
has not been disclosed in accordance with these regulations or a Court order;
(r) take
any other action or make any other order for the purpose of complying with
regulation 5.
(2) A power in this
regulation to make an order includes a power to vary or cancel the order.