Short answer. Ten days from receipt of the preliminary conference order to submit your witnesses' affidavits and other evidence on the factual issues identified in the order, together with a position paper setting out the law and facts you rely on. Rule 70, Section 10 fixes this deadline for both parties alike.

What the law says

Within ten days from receipt of the order mentioned in the next preceding section, the parties shall submit the affidavits of their witnesses and other evidence on the factual issues defined in the order, together with their position papers setting forth the law and the facts relied upon by them.

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A tight ten-day window

Once the parties receive the order from the preliminary conference, the clock starts running immediately: they have ten days from receipt of that order to submit their evidence, reflecting the compressed timelines that run throughout ejectment's summary procedure. There is no separate notice or additional step that resets or extends this window — receipt of the order itself is what starts the ten days, so counsel needs to be watching for it. This compressed timeline is consistent with how the preceding stages of an ejectment case under summary procedure are also kept short, from the deadline for holding the preliminary conference itself to the deadline for the order that follows it.

What must be submitted

Within that period, the parties must submit the affidavits of their witnesses along with other evidence, but specifically directed at the factual issues that the preliminary conference order defined as still controverted, rather than a free-for-all submission on every possible issue in the case. That link back to the order's own specification of controverted facts keeps the submission focused, since the preceding conference and its order already narrowed the case down to what genuinely remains in dispute. Evidence aimed at facts the order did not identify as controverted risks being disregarded as outside the scope the order actually set.

Position papers round out the submission

Alongside the affidavits and evidence, the parties must also submit position papers setting forth the law and the facts they rely on. Together, the affidavits, evidence, and position papers typically form the basis on which the court decides the case, given how summary procedure limits further hearings. Missing the ten-day window can mean losing the opportunity to have that evidence and legal argument considered at all, since the summary character of ejectment proceedings does not leave much room for a belated submission once the case moves toward judgment, and the court can proceed to decide the case based on what was timely filed.

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