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New Britain JD - Civil Standing Orders
Hon. Richard A. Robinson, P.J.

 

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Court Trial Management Order

In order to avoid unnecessary delays during trial and to prevent injustice to the parties, the following orders are entered in all cases which have been assigned for a court trial. Failure to comply may subject counsel to sanctions, including an order precluding the introduction of evidence at trial. See Practice Book, Section 14-14.

Counsel for all parties are ordered to be in communication prior to trial to determine what exhibits will be introduced by agreement and what facts are not in dispute and will be stipulated to by counsel.

By no later than 48 hours before trial is scheduled to begin, each counsel shall provide to all other counsel:

  1. A list of all proposed exhibits, whether agreed to or not, and copies of all proposed exhibits not previously provided through discovery.

  2. A list of all witnesses whom counsel will call at trial.

  3. A list of proposed stipulated facts.

  4. A list of all motions which must be decided before evidence may commence.

  5. Copies of all motions affecting trial proceedings which counsel intend to file.

Counsel shall provide copies of all the above, except for copies of the proposed exhibits, to the civil caseflow coordinator at the same time as they are provided to opposing counsel.

The testimony of witnesses, including treating doctors and expert witnesses, whose availability to testify at the time of trial is uncertain should be preserved by way of videotaped deposition or otherwise. See P.B. 13-31. CONTINUANCES WILL NOT BE GRANTED DUE TO THE UNAVAILABILITY OF SUCH WITNESSES.

If a case has settled when you receive this order or settles prior to the trial date, please notify caseflow at (860) 515-5360.

BY THE COURT


(Robinson, R.)
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Presiding Judge

 

Civil Jury Trial Management Order

At the commencement of the conference, counsel and pro se parties (if any) are to file with the court on pleading paper a joint trial management conference report providing the following information:

  • A Brief Summary of the case

  • A joint list of issues which are in dispute.

  • A joint list of pending motions, pending requests for discovery and proposed motions in limine. Unless otherwise allowed, Motions in Limine not filed at or before the conference will be heard only at the discretion of the trial judge.

  • A list of exhibits reasonably expected to be introduced by each party, indexed by P plus number for plaintiff(s) and by D plus number of defendant(s). The list shall briefly describe each exhibit and indicate whether any party objects to the admission of such exhibit and the grounds for such objection. After the trial management conference and prior to the commencement of trial, all exhibits listed must be marked with a court clerk as full exhibits or for identification.

  • A list of all witnesses reasonably expected to be called by each party, in sequence in which they will be called, including the name and the relationship of each witness to the case (e.g. party, eyewitness, expert) and whether there is a scheduling problem as to the testimony of any such witness. Rebuttal witnesses, i.e. those whose testimony is meant to rehabilitate, explain, qualify, negate or contradict that which has been presented during the defendant's case, need not be listed by the plaintiff. Likewise, surrebuttal witnesses, i.e. those whose testimony is meant to refute the plaintiff's rebuttal evidence, need not be listed by the defendant.

  • A joint estimate of the days required for jury selection and the days required for trial..

  • Parties are required to submit preliminary requests to charge on issues of liability at the commencement of evidence. These may be provided on an IBM formatted floppy disk as a WordPerfect document. Final requests to charge will be submitted at the direction of the trial judge.

  • Parties are required to submit proposed verdict forms at the commencement of evidence.

Failure to comply with this order may result in a judgment of nonsuit, default, exclusion of exhibits or witnesses at trial or other sanctions.

Per order of the Honorable Richard A. Robinson

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