Courts and Tribunals Judiciary publishes guidance on e-bundles

The Courts and Tribunals Judiciary has published general guidance to ensure consistency in the provision of electronic bundles (e-bundles) for court hearings (but not tribunal hearings) to promote efficient preparation and management of hearings. This guidance replaces previous guidance published in May 2020.

The guidance includes the following information:

• e-bundles should be in pdf format with the default view at 100% and should have bookmarks for sections
• pages must use computer-generated numbering, which should start at page one (whether or not that is part of an index) and the numbering must follow sequentially to the last page of the bundle
• pages in landscape should appear in that orientation
• each entry in the index must be hyperlinked to the indexed document
• pages containing typed text must be subject to optical character recognition if they have not been created directly as electronic text documents to facilitate searching
• it is generally better to have a single hearing e-bundle and a separate single authorities e-bundle rather than multiple bundles
• the resolution of the bundle should not be greater than 300 dpi

It also details guidance on delivering/uploading e-bundles, including filenames and email format, and provides advice where unrepresented litigants are involved.

Source: General guidance on electronic court bundles

Published Date

29 November 2021

Issue Date

29 November 2021

Issuing Department

Courts and Tribunals Judiciary

Jurisdiction

England; Wales

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