Joanna Tuffy (Labour)

While what the Minister of State has outlined makes sense, if in the absence of their being prescribed elsewhere, the Supreme Court sets out what it considers are the necessary procedures, surely it views these procedures as being fundamental. The Minister of State believes legislators may prescribe an alternative procedure to that which the Supreme Court might prescribe in the absence of the legislators specifying what is required. It could be argued that the need for pleadings is fundamental, which is why the Supreme Court would require them when nothing is specified in legislation.