Date:

06/18/1997

PRACTICE NOTE No 93


EQUITY DIVISION

Pro Bono Cases

In any case where:


(a) a legal practitioner is appearing as advocate for a party without fee;

(b) the hearing of the case is likely to conclude within one day; and

(c) it is otherwise appropriate for a hearing date to be fixed,

application may be made to an expedition Judge to fix a hearing date, in lieu of the case being placed in the Short Notice List.

This procedure is intended to avoid practical difficulties in changing advocates at short notice in cases accepted on a pro bono basis which would otherwise be suitable for inclusion in the Short Notice List.


Chief Justice

18 June 1997