(1) At the pre-trial review the judge must give directions as to the conduct of the trial to ensure the fair, expeditious and economic trial of the issues.
(2) In particular, the court may —
(a) fix the date for the trial (if one has not been previously fixed) and decide on the total time to be allowed for the trial;
(b) direct either party to provide further information to the other;
(c) direct how that time shall be allocated between the parties;
(d) direct the parties jointly to prepare one or more of —
(i) a core bundle of documents (that is, a bundle containing only the documents which the trial judge will need to pre-read or to which it will be necessary to refer repeatedly at the trial),
(ii) an agreed statement of facts,
(iii) an agreed statement of the basic technical, scientific or medical matters in issue,
(iv) an agreed statement as to any relevant specialist area of law, which statement shall not be binding on the trial judge;
(e) direct when and by whom the documents should be filed at the court;
(f) direct whether or not there are to be any opening or closing addresses and the time to be allocated to each;
(g) give directions as to the extent to which evidence may be given in written form;
(h) give directions as to the procedure to be followed at the trial; and
(i) give directions for the filing by each party and service on all other parties of one or more of the following —
(i) a chronology of relevant events,
(ii) a list of authorities which it is proposed to cite in support of those propositions,
(iii) a skeleton argument, and
(iv) a summary of any legal propositions to be relied on at the trial.