The trial courts of New South Wales should be merged to form one court.
A number of barristers and solicitors should be appointed recorders to serve as judges for four weeks each year.
If a court or a judge reserves its or his decision, it or he must fix a date upon which the decision will be given.
Where categories of business of a court, by reason of volume or common features, are amenable to being dealt with in a particular way, those categories should be recognized and treated accordingly.
The system of mentioning matters in the Commercial List of the Supreme Court should be discontinued.
Part 27 of the Supreme Court Rules should be amended so that the deposition of a witness may be taken on videotape and that videotape admitted in evidence.
The carriage of criminal prosecutions at the instance of the State of New South Wales should be controlled by one body headed by, for example, a Director of Public Prosecutions.
The present committal procedure operating in New South Wales should be abolished and a new procedure, specified in detail in the paragraph, should be adopted.
Each complex criminal case should be allocated to a particular judge at an early stage.
A default procedure should be instituted in respect of petty offenders.
In criminal proceedings there should be time limits for the commencement of trial, or for committal. If the limits are exceeded, the defendant should be discharged.
A pleading should commence by stating the cause of action or defence upon which the party relies.
Subject to the power of the court to grant an extension, any civil action the trial of which has not commenced within five years of the date of the filing of the initiating process should stand dismissed.
The existing pre-trial discovery procedure in New South Wales should be retained.
There should be a greater use of the procedures provided by section 82 of the Supreme Court Act, 1970.
In a complex case the judge should hold a pre-trial conference four to six weeks before the hearing.
Actions for damages for personal injury arising from motor vehicle accidents should be treated by the courts separately from those arising from industrial accidents.
