The General Pharmaceutical Council (Fitness to Practise and Disqualification etc. Rules) Order of Council 2010

Hearing bundles

18.—(1) This rule does not apply in respect of interim order hearings.

(2) Before any hearing, no later than 16 days before the Monday of the week in which the hearing is to take place before the Committee, the parties must serve on each other copies of the bundles on which they intend to rely at the hearing.

(3) No later than 9 days before the Monday of the week in which the hearing is to take place, the parties must serve on the secretary, 10 paginated copies of—

(a) where the bundle for the hearing has been agreed between the parties, the agreed bundle; or

(b) where the bundle for the hearing has not been agreed between the parties—

(i) any part of the bundle that has been agreed, and

(ii) a statement from the party seeking to rely on any disputed material why the party seeks to include it in their bundle;

(c) a statement of each party’s case; and

(d) where the case necessitates consideration of a point of law, each party’s skeleton argument.

(4) No later than 9 days before the Monday of the week in which the hearing is to take place, the parties must serve on the secretary a list indicating—

(a) any witness whose evidence has been agreed and who therefore does not need to be called; and

(b) any witness who is to be called to give oral evidence before the Committee.

(5) Any document which has not been served on the secretary by the end of the period specified in paragraph (3) is, except in exceptional circumstances, not to be admitted into evidence at the hearing.