Interlocutory procedures

This chapter is concerned with summary applications made to judges, masters, associate judges, or registrars in chambers during the course of a proceeding, which do not finally determine the rights of the parties. These are known generically as interlocutory procedures or proceedings. The chamber jurisdiction replaced the historical practice of such applications being heard in a judge’s chambers rather than in open court. Factual disputes and substantive issues that involve a final determination of the matters in dispute are heard and resolved by a trial court presided over by a judge.