There is a table of contents in a hearing bundle conventionally located at the start listing every section, and every document within each section, in the order they appear, with page numbers, and there should be a corresponding PDF bookmark for every entry.
This table of contents is always referred to as the Index. Why is it called an Index when it is actually a table of contents? The word Index actually has a number of meanings. As well as the usual everyday meaning of an alphabetic index, Index is actually an old word for a table of contents. Index can also refer to a list. The production of a hearing bundle is a collaborative task and involves the party with primary responsibility initially sending a draft Index - i.e. a list of documents proposed to be included in the bundle - to the other side for their comments/additions. That list, as modified, eventually becomes the table of contents of the bundle when it is produced. To call the initial list a draft table of contents might not seem quite right when as yet there are no "contents" and draft table of proposed contents is something of a mouthful. This may be why the word Index is almost universally used by courts and other tribunals to refer to the table of contents of an eBundle.
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