Administrative Rules of Montana
Department 24 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Chapter 24.5 - OFFICE OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION JUDGE
Subchapter 24.5.3 - Procedural Rules
Rule 24.5.332 - CONDUCT OF TRIAL
Universal Citation: MT Admin Rules 24.5.332
Current through Register Vol. 18, September 20, 2024
(1) Trials will be held in courtrooms when available or any other designated place.
(2) The court conducts trials in the same manner as a trial without a jury. Trials must proceed in the following order unless the court, for good cause and special reasons, otherwise directs.
(a) The party on whom rests the burden of the
issues may briefly state the party's case and the evidence by which the party
expects to sustain it.
(b) The
adverse party may then briefly state the adverse party's defense and the
evidence the adverse party expects to offer in support of it, or may wait and
do this at the beginning of the adverse party's case-in-chief.
(c) The party on whom rests the burden of the
issues shall produce the party's evidence; the adverse party shall then follow
with the adverse party's evidence.
(d) The parties shall then be confined to
rebuttal evidence, unless the court, for good reasons and in the furtherance of
justice, permits either party to offer further evidence in support of its
case-in-chief.
Sec. 2-4-201, MCA; IMP, Sec. 2-4-201, 39-71-2901, MCA;
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