Unless the Judge otherwise orders, a party intending to rely on oral evidence of a witness as to facts or of an expert at trial shall, not later than one month prior to the trial in the case of the plaintiff and not later than seven days prior to the date in the case of the defendant, respondent or other party defending the proceedings, serve upon the other, a written statement outlining the essential elements of the evidence signed and dated by the witness or expert, as the case may be.<\/p>\n
The Judge may, in exceptional circumstances which are to be set forth in the order and after hearing all the parties, make an order directing that the written statement shall be treated as the evidence in chief of the witness or expert concerned, but only after it has been verified on oath by such witness or expert.<\/p>\n
The Judge may allow a witness to give evidence, whether from within or outside the State, through a live video link or by other means. The Evidence shall be recorded by video or otherwise as the Judge directs.<\/p>\n\n
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Case Management Where the Judge directs that the proceedings are to be subject to case management, he shall fix a day for a case management conference.\u00a0 He may give further directions for the completion, prior to the conference of such steps in the proceedings, including the preparation of a case booklet, as he considers appropriate. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36194,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21429\/revisions\/36194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}