When should a welfare case management conference be listed?

For the ordinary Personal Welfare Pathway, PD 3B paragraph 2.4(1)(b) provides for listing a case management conference within twenty-eight days after issue. Urgent cases instead follow paragraph 2.4(2) and the judge’s directions.

Responsible actor. The court conducting gatekeeping and case management.

Issue of an application allocated to the Personal Welfare Pathway.

Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.

Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.

1. For the ordinary Personal Welfare Pathway, PD 3B paragraph 2.4(1)(b) provides for listing a case management conference within twenty-eight days after issue. Urgent cases instead follow paragraph 2.4(2) and the judge’s directions.
2. The listing provision informs the court’s timetable. It does not authorise a party to ignore earlier directions or establish a guaranteed hearing date.
3. An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.

For the ordinary Personal Welfare Pathway, PD 3B paragraph 2.4(1)(b) provides for listing a case management conference within twenty-eight days after issue. Urgent cases instead follow paragraph 2.4(2) and the judge’s directions. An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.

The listing provision informs the court’s timetable. It does not authorise a party to ignore earlier directions or establish a guaranteed hearing date. Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.

Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order. An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.

The court issues a nonurgent application allocated to the Personal Welfare Pathway. Practice Direction 3B paragraph 2.4 addresses listing the Case Management Conference within twenty-eight days. Establish the court’s actual listing. The page does not calculate a party filing deadline from the listing obligation.

The ordinary listing period crosses a court closure. A calendar expectation does not itself fix when the court will sit or issue directions. Check the actual notice and any applicable directions rather than treating a carried date as a confirmed hearing.

The application is urgent and needs a different timetable. Paragraph 2.4 expressly allows the urgent exception. Use the urgent listing and directions; the ordinary twenty-eight-day branch does not override them.

Applicable procedure and event

Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.

Required act and boundary

The listing provision informs the court’s timetable. It does not authorise a party to ignore earlier directions or establish a guaranteed hearing date.

Separate connected procedure

An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.

• Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.
• An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.

• Confirm the case belongs to this pathway rather than a property, mixed or excepted class. Identify urgency and the actual listing order.
• The listing provision informs the court’s timetable. It does not authorise a party to ignore earlier directions or establish a guaranteed hearing date.
• An allocated pathway displaces rule 9.12(5) and (7)’s ordinary witness-statement timetable.
• The listing provision informs the court’s timetable. It does not authorise a party to ignore earlier directions or establish a guaranteed hearing date.