2.
The Court may at any stage of the proceedings direct any such necessary inquiries or accounts to be
made or taken notwithstanding that it appears that there is some special or further relief sought
for, or some special issues to be tried, as to which it may be proper that the cause or matter should
proceed in the ordinary manner.
General powers of the Referee
3.
(1) The Referee may, subject to the order of the Court, hold the inquiry at, or adjourn it to, any
place which he may deem most expedient, and have any inspection or view which he may deem
expedient, for the disposal of the controversy before him.
(2)
The Referee shall, as far as practicable, proceed with the inquiry from day to day.
Evidence
4.
Subject to any order to be made by the Court ordering the inquiry, evidence shall be taken at
any inquiry before a Referee, and the attendance of witnesses to give evidence before a Referee may
be enforced by the Court in the manner as the attendance may be enforced before the Court
and every such inquiry shall be conducted in the same manner or as nearly as circumstances will
admit, as trials before a Judge of the court, but not so as to make the tribunal of the Referee a
public Court of justice.
Referee's authority in the inquiry
5.
Subject to any order of Court, the Referee shall have the same authority in the conduct of any inquiry as
a Judge of the Court when presiding at any trial.
Limitation in certain particulars
6.
Nothing in these provisions authorizes any Referee to commit any person to prison, or to
enforce any order by attachment or otherwise, but the Court may, in respect of matters before a
Referee, make any order of attachment or committal it may consider necessary.
Reports made in pursuance of reference
7.
2.
(3)
(a)
(b)
(c)
(d)
(1) The report made by a Referee in pursuance of a reference under these Rules shall be
made to the Court and notice thereof served on the parties to the reference.
Referee may report questions of facts specially
A Referee may in his report submit any question arising therein for the decision of the Court or
make a special statement of facts from which the Court may draw such inferences as it thinks fit.
On the receipt of a Referee's report, the Court may
adopt the report in whole or in part;
vary the report;
require an explanation from the Referee;
remit the whole or any part of the question or issue originally referred to him for further
consideration by him or any other Referee; or