When a witness is making and signing their statement, they will have in front of them a copy of each document they refer to in the statement. They will identify the document by description and usually also by an exhibit mark - a prefixed number - e.g. "...the letter I sent him on 25th March 2024: I refer to the letter marked PMJ6". The exhibit mark might be in the form PMJ6 (the 6th exhibit referred to in the statement of Paula Mary Jones) or in some documents, such as a Statement of Case, there might be a reference in the form Resp8 (the 8th document listed in the Respondent's statement of case). As a consequence of seeking to avoid duplication in the eventual eBundle, and of seeking to place a single copy of each document in its logical position, a copy of each document referred to in a statement will not immediately follow the statement in the eBundle: a single copy will be in the appropriate position in a chronological section elsewhere within the eBundle. So there is a need for document references in statements to be hyperlinked so that the user of an eBundle will be able to easily go to each referenced document as they read through each paragraph of a statement. The guidelines for many courts and some other tribunals stipulate that there should be such hyperlinks in the eBundle.
But you might come across the situation where a statement was originally accompanied by an exhibit containing multiple documents. The statement may refer to them like this:
Exhibit JJS12 contains various photos taken at various times, and other documents which show this...
In the eventual eBundle the documents can be separated and each be arranged in the logical position and the individual separated documents will have bookmarks with a starting page number suffix so for the first photo may be JJS12-p1 and the second may be JJS12-p2 and if there is a two page document it might be JJS12p3 and the next document JJS12p5 etc. The original multi-document exhibit would be placed just after the statement and have a bookmark of JJS12-multidoc In this situation it is not really appropriate to have a single hyperlink and it is better for the reader to use the Find function of of suitable PDF software to look at both the original multi-document exhibit, and also each individual document positioned in its appropriate chronological position. Double-clicking on the exhibit mark mentioned in the statement (JJS12 in this example) and doing a Find for bookmarks containing that will produce a hits for the original multi-document exhibit and also for every individual document which has that exhibit mark in its bookmark, and the reader can then move through the hits to see them all as required.
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