5. The Bar considers the following to be the guiding principles laid down by the authorities:

1. any application should be timely made;
2. all relevant material should be placed before the Court (and, therefore, be available for the consideration of the Bar);
3. any attempt to instruct local Counsel must be reasonable, serious and genuine;
4. local junior Counsel should be instructed other than on a nominal basis (such that the earlier and greater the involvement of at least one local Counsel, the better are the chances of an application succeeding);
5. it would be difficult to persuade a Court that there are cases which no local Counsel are capable of handling due to unusual difficulty and complexity. That a case is of such difficulty and complexity only reduces the number of local Counsel who would be thought suitable;
6. if it is said that a case will have an impact on the development of local jurisprudence, the impact must be of some real and substantial, not merely trivial, significance.

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