When the proceedings are adjourned to a later hearing, the judge may organise the exchanges between the parties appearing. After having heard their opinions, the judge may thus set the time limits and, if they agree, the conditions for communicating their claims, pleas and exhibits.
When all the parties appearing formulate their claims and pleas in writing and are assisted or represented by a lawyer, the pleadings must expressly state the claims as well as the pleas in fact and in law on which each of these claims is based with an indication for each claim of the exhibits relied on and their numbering. A list of the documents supporting these claims is attached to the pleadings. The pleadings shall contain a separate statement of the facts and of the proceedings, a discussion of the claims and of the pleas in law, and an operative part summarising the claims. Any pleas that have not been formulated in the previous pleadings must be presented in a formally separate manner. The court will only rule on the claims set out in the operative part and will only examine the pleas in support of these claims if they are raised in the discussion. In their final submissions, the parties must repeat the claims and pleas presented or relied upon in their earlier submissions. If they fail to do so, they shall be deemed to have abandoned them and the judge shall rule only on the last submissions made.
Where the parties formulate their claims and pleas in writing and they are not assisted or represented by a lawyer, the judge may, with their agreement, provide that they shall be deemed to have abandoned the claims and pleas not included in their last submissions communicated.
If the parties fail to comply with the methods of communication set by the judge, the judge may call the case back to the hearing, with a view to hearing it or striking it out.
The judge may remove from the proceedings any claims, pleas and exhibits communicated without legitimate reason after the date set for the exchanges and whose lateness prejudices the rights of the defence.