Paragraph 7 Case management meetingsI1
England, Wales and Scotland
Where a hearing is to be held a case management meetingf1 may be convened by the chair of the chair’s own motion or at the written request of one or both of the parties.
Where a case management meeting is to be convened, the secretary must give the parties such notice of it as is reasonable (in the opinion of the chair) in all the circumstances of the case.
A case management meeting may be conducted by teleconference or such other method as is determined by the chair, in consultation with the parties.
A case management meeting must be held in private.
At a case management meeting, the chair (in addition to the matters mentioned in rule 4(3)) may issue such directions as the chair considers necessary for the just and expeditious management of the case and may give preliminary rulings for the purpose of resolving questions of law and admissibility of evidence.
Any preliminary rulings mentioned in paragraph (5) are binding on the Committee hearing the appeal.
Annotations
Commencement
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Sch. rule 7 in force at 27.9.2010, see rule 1
Footnotes
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By virtue of rule 18(3) of the General Pharmaceutical Council (Statutory Committees and their Advisers) Rules 2010 which are scheduled to S.I. 2010/1616, a case management meeting must be conducted by the chair. By virtue of rule 21(4) of those rules, if the chair is not legally qualified (as defined in rule 2 of those rules) a legal adviser must also be present at a case management meeting.