(1)
| (a) | Any party wishing to set down a case with respect to an application for the determination of compensation, shall as soon as possible after delivery of the reply and before delivery of a notice of set-down, request the other parties, in writing, to attend a consultation at a mutually suitable time for the purpose of agreeing on ways of curtailing the proceedings, and more particularly on as many as possibly of the following: |
| (i) | The admission of facts and documents; |
| (ii) | the holding of any inspection or examination; |
| (iii) | the discovery of documents; |
| (iv) | the giving of any further particulars reasonably required for the purposes of the hearing of the application for the determination of compensation; |
| (v) | the plans, diagrams, photographs, models and the like to be used at the hearing of the application; |
| (vi) | the preparation and handing in at the proceedings of copies of correspondence and other documents in the form of a volume with copies for the court and all parties. |
| (b) | After the consultation the parties shall draw up a minute of the matters upon which they — |
and shall sign such minute.
| (c) | The consultation contemplated in paragraph (a) may be held at any time after the delivery of the reply but before the commencement of the proceedings. |
| (2) | At the commencement of the proceedings the parties shall report to the court whether such consultation was held and, if so, shall hand in the signed minute referred to in paragraph (b). |
