12. The trial Judge shall, at or after trial, direct judgment to be entered as he thinks right and no motion for
judgment shall be necessary in order to obtain such judgment.N
13. The registrar or other proper officer present at any trial or hearing shall make a note of times at which the
trial or hearing commences and terminate respectively and the time actually occupied thereby of each day on
which the trial or hearing takes place for communication to the Taxing Officer, if required.
14. Trial with assessors shall, where permitted under a written law, take place in such a manner and upon such
terms as the Court shall decide.
15. The order of proceeding at the trial of a case where pleadings have been filed shall be as prescribed in the
following rules.
16. The party on whom the burden of proof is thrown by the nature of the material issues or questions between
the parties, according as the Court may determine, shall begin.
17. (1) The party beginning shall then produce his evidence and examine his witnesses.
(2) When the party, beginning has concluded his evidence, he shall ask the other party if he intends to call
evidence (in which term is included evidence taken b affidavit or deposition, or under commission, and
documentary evidence not already read or taken as read); and if answered in the negative, he shall be entitled to
sum up the evidence already given, and comment thereon; but if answered in the affirmative, he shall wait for his
general reply.
18. When the party beginning has concluded his case, the other party shall be at liberty to state his case and to
call evidence, and to sum up and comment thereon.
19. If no evidence is called or read by the latter party, the party beginning shall have no right to reply, unless he
has been prevented from summing up his case by statement of the other party of his intention to call evidence.
20. The case on both sides shall then be considered closed.
21. If the party opposed to the party beginning calls or reads evidence, the party beginning shall be at liberty to
reply generally on the whole case, or he may by leave of the Court, call fresh evidence in reply to the evidence
given on the other side, on points material to the determination of the issues, or any of them, but not on collateral
matters.
22. Where evidence in reply is tendered and allowed to be given, the party against whom the evidence has been
adduced shall be at liberty to address the Court and the party beginning shall be entitled to the general reply.
23. Documentary evidence shall be put in and read or taken as read by consent.
24. (1) The court clerk shall take charge of every document or object put in as an exhibit during the trial of an
action and shall mark or label ever exhibit with a letter or letters indicating the party by whom the it is put in (or
where more convenient, the witness by whom the exhibit is proved) and with a number, so that all the exhibits
put in by a party (or proved by a witness) are numbered in one consecutive series.
(2) The Court Clerk shall cause a list of all the exhibits in the action to be made.
(3) The list of exhibits when completed shall be attached to the pleadings and shall form part of the record of the
action.
(4) For the purpose of this rule, a bundle of documents may be treated and counted as one exhibit.
(5) In this rule, a witness by whom an exhibit is proved includes a witness in the course of whose evidence the
exhibit is put in.
25. (1) Where a document or object is tendered as an exhibit and is rejected by the Court, it shall be marked
"Rejected," and shall be retained along with accepted exhibits.