Article 11 Hearing for directions
Upon receipt of a notice of appeal under rule 7 the registrar of the appellate court shall fix a time and place for a hearing for directions to be held not later than 28 days after the lodging of the notice of appeal and he shall give not less than 7 days' notice in writing thereof to the parties and bodies which participated in the faculty proceedings in the consistory court and any other person who has become a party pursuant to rule 10.
The appellant and any other party or body which participated in the faculty proceedings in the consistory court and any other party to the appeal shall specify in writing any directions to be sought at the hearing for directions and shall give notice thereof in writing to the registrar of the appellate court in Form No. 6 in the Appendix to these Rules not less than 2 days before the date fixed for the hearing for directions and shall send a copy thereof to every other party or body as aforesaid.
At the hearing for directions the registrar shall give such directions as he considers will facilitate the hearing of the appeal and, without prejudice to the generality thereof, may give directions as to all or any of the following—
the identification by the parties of such parts of the statements given in evidence, exhibits or other documents material to the issues to be considered at the hearing of the appeal;
the preparation of paginated bundles of material identified in (a) by one or more of the parties in sufficient numbers to provide for each member of the appellate court;
the lodging and service of the outline arguments of the parties and their lists of authorities (or photocopies of them), if any;
where an application is to be made to the appellate court to hear evidence not given in the consistory court, directions as to the preparation of a proof of evidence for the witness in question together with a short and concise written explanation as to—
why the evidence was not called in the consistory court,
the relevance and importance of the further evidence in relation to the decision of the consistory court and the issues raised in the grounds of appeal;
the time within which any direction is to be complied with or within which any other thing is to be done.
The registrar may, if he thinks fit, adjourn the hearing for directions to a date which shall be not later than 14 days after the date fixed for the hearing for directions and at the time of the adjournment he shall give notice to the parties to the appeal and to any other person or body who participated in the faculty proceedings in the consistory court of the date, time and place for the adjourned hearing.