Hearing bundle
Plain-English definitions for England and Wales. General information, not legal advice. Laws and figures change - always check the current position on GOV.UK.
Hearing bundle An organised, paginated set of the documents both sides will rely on at the hearing, usually agreed between the parties. The tribunal, witnesses and parties all work from the same bundle so everyone refers to the same page numbers.
Also known as: bundle, trial bundle
Related terms
- Disclosure
- The stage where each side provides the other with the documents relevant to the issues - both those that help and those that harm their own case. It typically happens to a deadline set by a case management order.
- Witness statement
- A written, first-person account of what a witness saw or did, exchanged before the hearing and usually taken as their main evidence. At the hearing the witness confirms it and can then be cross-examined on it.
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