A paperless commercial court

July 25, 2018 by JW in Court Books, Oppression proceedings, Technology, Supreme Court of Victoria, Practice Note SC GEN 19, Commercial Court

The Supreme Court's commercial court moves closer to being paperless.

Since the start of July 2018 all cases are being initiated, run and archived electronically.

Documentary advocacy in commercial trials: what does the judge want?

October 04, 2017 by JW in Procedure, Civil Procedure, Practice Notes, Civil litigation, Court Books, Advocacy, Technology

Here are ten tips to prepare for a commercial trial, based on a paper prepared by Justice Hargrave (principal judge of the Supreme Court’s Commercial Court) in 2017, and a previous version of the paper from 2014.

In short, good advocacy involves strategic out-of-court preparation, including considered ‘documentary advocacy’, awareness of the Civil Procedure rules, harnessing technology, and early analysis and editing of the case.