Paragraph 5.20 Statement of facts and issues

The appellant shall prepare and lodge a statement of the facts and issues involved in the appeal. The statement should if possible be a single document agreed between the parties. It should not contain material more appropriately included in a Case.

Where the parties are unable to adopt an agreed statement, the respondent may prepare his own statement which should be appended to that of the appellant under the title “Respondent’s statement of facts and issues”.

If the respondent neither agrees to a joint statement nor produces a statement of his own for attachment to the appellant’s statement, the appellant may lodge his statement with a certificate to the effect that the respondent has been offered an opportunity to join in preparation of the statement.

The statement need not set out or summarise the judgments of the lower courts, nor set out legislative provisions, nor contain an account of the proceedings below.