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Mode of binding records, &c., for use of Judicial PRIVY COUNCIL APPEALS.
handing one another, either at the offices of one of the agents or in the Registry of the Privy Council, 10 copies of their respective cases.
Binding Records, &c.
68. As soon as an appeal is set down, the appellant shall attend at the Registry of the Privy Council and obtain 10 copies of the record and cases to be bound for the use of the Judicial Committee at the hearing. The copies shall be bound in cloth or in half leather with paper sides, and 6 leaves of blank paper shall be inserted before the appellant's case. The front cover shall bear a printed label stating the title and Privy Council number of the appeal, the contents of the volume, and the names and addresses of the London agents. The several documents, indicated by incuts, shall be arranged in the following order (1) Appellant's case; (2) Respondent's case; (3) Record; (4) Supplemental record (if any); and the short title and Privy Council number of the appeal shall also be shown on the back.
Time within which bound copies shall be lodged.
69. The appellant shall lodge the bound copies not less than 4 clear days before the commencement of the sittings during which the appeal is to be heard.
Notice to parties of date of commencement of sittings. Entering appeals for hearing. Notice to parties of day fixed for hearing appeal.
Only two counsel heard on a side in appeals. Nautical assessors.
Hearing.
70. As soon as the Judicial Committee have appointed a day for the commencement of the sittings for the hearing of appeals, the Registrar of the Privy Council shall, as far as in him lies, make known the day so appointed to the agents of all parties concerned, and shall name a day on or before which appeals must be set down if they are to be entered in the list of business for such sittings. All appeals set down on or before the day named shall, subject to any directions from the Committee or to any agreement between the parties to the contrary, be entered in such list of business and shall, subject to any direction from the Committee to the contrary, be heard in the order in which they are set down.
71. The Registrar of the Privy Council shall, subject to the provisions of rule 42, notify the parties to each appeal by summons, at the earliest possible date, of the day appointed by the Judicial Committee for the hearing of the appeal, and the parties shall be in readiness to be heard on the day so appointed.
72. At the hearing of an appeal not more than two counsel shall be admitted to be heard on a side.
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73. In Admiralty appeals the Judicial Committee may, if they think fit, require the attendance of two Nautical Assessors.