The Practice Direction on Administrative Court Bundle Guidance explains how PDF bundles should be numbered:
“All bundles must be paginated in ascending order from start to finish. The first page of the PDF will be numbered “1”, and so on. (Any original page numbers of documents within the bundle are to be ignored.) Index pages must be numbered as part of the single PDF document, they are not to be skipped; they are part of the single PDF and must be numbered. If a hard copy of the bundle is produced, the pagination on the hard copy must correspond exactly to the pagination of the PDF.”
The reason for requiring the index pages to be numbered as part of the PDF document is to avoid the problem of the index saying a certain document is at, for example, page 234 but going to page 234 in the PDF then takes you to a totally different document.
I note the Equal Treatment Bench Book has recently been published. In the downloadable PDF version, the index pages are not numbered as part of the single PDF document.
You couldn’t make it up.
