PART 4Consideration by the Statutory Committee: initial stages

Case management meetings

22.—(1) Case management meetings of the Statutory Committee are to be conducted by the chair.

(2) Where requested by the chair, the secretary must list the matter for a case management meeting

(3) The secretary must give the parties such notice of the meeting as is reasonable in the particular circumstances of the case.

(4) Case management meetings may be conducted by video link, teleconference or such other method as is agreed by the parties or, where the parties fail to agree, decided by the chair.

(5) The chair is to act independently of the parties and may give directions to secure the just, expeditious and effective running of the proceedings before the Statutory Committee.

(6) Case management meetings are to be held in private.