New Federal Court Notice On Trial Management Guidelines

On April 28, 2017, the Federal Court released a Notice to the Parties and the Profession on Trial Management Guidelines ("Notice"). This document lays out various pre-trial conduct that parties are to undertake. The Notice is stated to expressly apply to matters that are scheduled for trial for five or more days in Federal Court.

The Notice, which has twenty-one requirements, can be found on the Federal Court website.[1]

Any litigant with a matter currently pending before the Federal Court will want to review the Notice to ensure that they are in compliance with the court's directives. Among the topics covered in the Notice are:

• Timing of motions;
• Timing of a trial management conference;