SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2017 - REG 1A.04 Powers of Registrar, Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division and Prothonotary

SUPREME COURT (CRIMINAL PROCEDURE) RULES 2017 - REG 1A.04

    (1)     The Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary may refuse to seal a document submitted in RedCrest to be filed until satisfied that the document—

        (a)     complies with the Rules; or

        (b)     complies with an order of the Court.

    (2)     The Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary may reject a document if the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary (as the case requires) considers that—

        (a)     a document, if it were sealed, would be substantially irregular or constitute an abuse of process; or

        (b)     there has been a failure to comply with the Rules, an order of the Court or a direction of the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary after a reasonable opportunity to do so.

    (3)     If the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary—

        (a)     refuses to seal a document; or

        (b)     rejects the document—

the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary, as the case requires, shall send an electronic communication to the authorised person advising—

        (c)     that the document has not been accepted for filing; and

        (d)     the reason it was not accepted for filing.

    (4)     If the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary—

        (a)     fails to seal a document within a reasonable time; or

        (b)     refuses to seal a document; or

        (c)     rejects a document—

the Court may—

        (d)     direct the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary to seal the document with a filing date, being the date the document was first submitted in RedCrest for filing;

        (e)     direct the Registrar, the Judicial Registrar-Criminal Division or the Prothonotary to seal the document with a filing date, being the date the document is so sealed;

        (f)     make any other order or give any direction that it considers appropriate.

    (5)     For the purposes of paragraph (4), if a direction or order is made by the Court of Appeal, the Court of Appeal may be constituted by one or more Judges of Appeal.

Rule 1A.04.1 inserted by S.R. No. 73/2019 rule 17.