155Access to documents

155 Access to documents

(1)  A registrar, on the application of any person and payment of any prescribed fee, is to make available for inspection by that person any of the following:

(a) a transcript of evidence taken by the Court in any proceedings;

(b) any documentary material admitted into evidence in any proceedings;

(c) a transcript of submissions by counsel;

(d) a transcript of reasons for judgment;

(e) any judgment entered or order made under these rules.

(2)  On the payment of any prescribed fee, a registrar is to provide a person with a copy of any material that is available for inspection under this rule.

(3)  Evidence or evidentiary material is not to be made available for inspection under this rule if –

(a) the evidence or evidentiary material was not given or produced in open court; or

(b) the Court has suppressed the evidence or evidentiary material from publication; or

(c) the Court has determined that the evidence or evidentiary material is not to be made available for inspection under this rule.

(4)  Except with the leave of the Court, a person who is not a party to proceedings is not to search in the registry for, or inspect, any of the following:

(a) any judgment, order, transcript of a proceeding or other document that the Court has ordered to remain confidential;

(b) any affidavit;

(c) any interrogatory or answer to an interrogatory;

(d) any list of discovered documents;

(e) any admission;

(f) any evidence taken on deposition;

(g) any summons to a witness or any document lodged with the registrar in answer to a summons to a witness;

(h) any other document that the registrar considers ought to remain confidential to the parties.