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Judicial Review: Procedure Guide
If permission is granted steps are then taken to prepare the case
for trial.
The normal steps are:
1. The opponent has five weeks to provide
a full explanation of its reasons for opposing the case, together
with any witness statements it wants to rely on at the trial
and details of any relevant documents. When doing this the opponent
must provide all the relevant information about the background
to the case even if this information is unhelpful to their case.
2. If there are any documents or any further witness statements
you want to rely on in light of the further information provided
by the opponent, we will prepare these and submit them to the
court and the opponent.
3. We then prepare a ‘bundle’ of all the documents
about the court case and submit this to the court and the opponent.
4. We then arrange for a specialist barrister to represent you
at the trial. The barrister will prepare a written summary of
the legal arguments. This written summary is called a ‘Skeleton
Argument’. It is usually prepared three weeks before the
trial and is provided to the court and to the opponent.
5. The opponent’s barrister then has one week to provide
us with his or her Skeleton Argument. This is submitted to court
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In some cases the judge will request that additional steps are taken
to prepare the case for the trial.
For example, if we think that the opponent has failed to provide all
the relevant background information we may apply for a court order
compelling the opponent to do so.
In urgent cases all the steps set out above will happen more quickly.
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