(1) At least 21 days before the date fixed for the trial, all parties must —
(a) inform the claimant of all the documents; and
(b) serve on the claimant all documents not already in the possession of the claimant, that they wish to have included in the bundle of documents to be used at the trial.
(2) The claimant must prepare a bundle including all the documents which any party wishes to make use of at the trial.
(3) The bundle of documents should separate those which are agreed and those which are not agreed.
(4) The claimant must paginate and index the bundle of documents.
(5) At least 10 days before the date fixed for the trial the claimant must file at the court office —
(a) a bundle comprising copies of —
(i) the claim form,
(ii) all other statements of case,
(iii) any requests for information and the replies,
(iv) any document which the parties were ordered to file under rule 38.6(2)(b), and
(v) the pre-trial memorandum or memoranda;
(b) a second bundle comprising copies of —
(i) all expert reports,
(ii) all witness statements, and
(iii) agreed statements under rule 38.6(2)(d)(ii)-(iv);
(c) a third bundle comprising the documents referred to in paragraph (2); and
(d) where the bundles exceed 100 pages of documents in total, a core bundle (i.e., 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).
(6) There must be excluded from the bundles prepared under this rule any —
(a) application or order relating to interim payments under Part 17; and
(b) offer to settle under Part 35 or notice of payment into court under Part 36,
and any reference to any such payment or offer must be excised from any document contained in the bundles.
(7) If only a counterclaim is to be tried, references in this rule to the “claimant” should be construed as references to the defendant.
• Rule 27.6 allows the court to dispense with all or some of the requirements of this rule in simple and urgent cases.