24.—(1) This rule applies where a decision has been given in a lead case in accordance with rule 23 and a subsequent application is made which includes any of the common or related issues.
(2) The Tribunal may send written notice to the parties to the subsequent application of—
(a)the matters which it appears to the Tribunal are the common or related issues in the subsequent application and the previously decided lead case;
(b)the decision recorded in respect of the common or related issues in the lead case;
(c)the Tribunal’s proposal to record its decision on the common or related issues in the subsequent application in materially identical terms to the decision in the lead case;
(d)the date (being not less than 21 days after the date that the notice was sent) by which any objection to this proposal must be received by the Tribunal; and
(e)a requirement that any objection must include the grounds on which it is made.
(3) Where no objection is received on or before the date specified in the notice—
(a)the Tribunal need not determine the matters mentioned in paragraph (2)(a); and
(b)the decision of the Tribunal in respect of the common or related issues in the lead case must be recorded as the decision of the Tribunal in respect of the common or related issues in the subsequent application.
(4) Where an objection is delivered to the Tribunal’s proposal on or before the date specified in the notice the Tribunal must determine the application in accordance with the other provisions of these Rules.