Normally each exhibit referred to in a statement which will be used for the Final Hearing (trial) should be a single document so that, in the eventual Final Hearing Bundle, individual documents can be separately arranged in the most appropriate positions.
But, that said, there are some hearings other than the Final Hearing - such as an urgent hearing at the beginning of, or part way through, a case e.g. an urgent application for an interim injunction - where it is not required (and indeed often not feasible in the time available) to produce, for the urgent hearing, a fully engineered Hearing Bundle in which documents exhibited by multiple statements are arranged chronologically. For such hearings, using a composite exhibit, containing a number of documents, can actually be very useful. Each page of the composite exhibit would be numbered bottom centre - e.g. JJS1-p1, JJS1-p2, JJS1-p3 etc. and the front page (or pages) of the composite exhibit would include a list of the documents with page numbers, and because each statement, when referring to a document, will be quoting the bottom centre page reference within the composite exhibit - e.g. JJS1-p3 - that provides at least some ready-made means of easy reference.
A composite exhibit can be created using the kind of software used to create hearing bundles - e.g. Bundledocs or Litigation Ready - although you may need to generate unpaginated pages and then apply page numbers using PDF software to ensure that page numbers are prefixed by the exhibit mark - e.g. JJS1-p3
If a bundle for an interim hearing is produced, including statements and accompanying composite exhibits, it is possible to hyperlink references in statements - e.g. JJS1-3 - to bundle pages using PDF X-Change Editor using the this procedure. Then you can add margin page number references. These will be added not only to statements but also to the frontsheet of each exhibit which contains hyperlinks to the documents within the exhibit.
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