549Pre-trial conferences

549 Pre-trial conferences

At a pre-trial conference before a judge, consideration is to be given to the following matters:

(a) simplifying the issues in the action or other proceeding;

(b) the necessity or desirability of amending the pleadings;

(c) obtaining further admissions of fact and of documents to avoid unnecessary proof;

(d) the availability of witnesses;

(e) limiting the number of expert witnesses;

(f) if the action is in tort brought by one of the parties to a marriage against the other during the subsistence of the marriage and an application for a stay has not been made, whether the power to stay the action under section 7A(2) of the Married Women's Property Act 1935 ought to be exercised;

(g) any other matter the judge considers appropriate for the disposing of the action or other proceeding.