1.—(1) Unless the nature of the document renders it impracticable, every document prepared by a party for use in the Supreme Court must be on paper of durable quality, approximately 297mm long, by 210mm wide or A4ISO having a margin, not less than 38mm wide, to be left blank on the left side of the face of the paper and on the right side of the reverse.
(2) In these Rules the expressions “A3”, “A4” and “A5” followed by the letters “ISO” mean respectively the size of paper so referred to in the specifications of the International Standards Organisation.
[E.r. 1]
2.—(1) Except where these Rules otherwise provide, every document prepared by a party for use in the Supreme Court must be produced by one of the following means, that is to say, printing, writing (which must be clear and legible) and typewriting otherwise than by means of a carbon, and may be produced partly by one of those means and partly by another or others of them.
(2) For the purposes of these rules a document shall be deemed to be printed if it is produced by type lithography or stencil duplicating.
(3) Any type used in producing a document for use as aforesaid must be such as to give a clear and legible impression and must be not smaller than 11point type for printing or elite type for type lithography, stencil duplicating or typewriting.
(4) Any document produced by a photographic or similar process giving a positive and permanent representation free from blemishes shall, to the extent that it contains a facsimile of any printed, written or typewritten matter, be treated for the purposes of these rules as if it were printed, written or typewritten, as the case may be.
(5) Any notice required by these Rules may not be given orally except with the leave of the Court.
[E.r. 2]
3.—(1) Where a document prepared by a party for use in the Supreme Court is printed the party by whom it was prepared must, on receiving a written request from any other party entitled to a copy of that document and on payment of the proper charges, supply him with such number of copies thereof, not exceeding ten, as may be specified in the request.
(2) Where a document prepared by a party for use in the Supreme Court is written or typewritten, the party by whom it was prepared must supply any other party entitled to a copy of it, not being a party on whom it has been served, with one copy of it and, where the document in question is an affidavit, of any document exhibited to it.
The copy must be ready for delivery within 48 hours after a written request for it, together with an undertaking to pay the proper charges, is received and must be supplied thereafter on payment of those charges.
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4.—(1) Before a copy of a document is supplied to a party under these Rules it must be indorsed with the name and address of the party or solicitor by whom it was supplied.
(2) The party by whom a copy is supplied under rule 3, or, if he sues or appears by a solicitor, his solicitor, shall be answerable for the copy being a true copy of the original or of an office copy, as the case may be.
[E.r. 4]
5.—(1) Any person shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be entitled during office hours to search for, inspect and take a copy of any of the following documents filed in the Central Office, namely—
(a)the copy of any writ of summons or other originating process.
(b)any judgment or order given or made in court or the copy of any such judgment or order, and
(c)with the leave of the Court, which may be granted on an application made ex parte, any other document.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall apply to the judgments and orders filed in the Chancery Office or the Bankruptcy and Companies Office, and to the Chancery judgments and orders kept in the Central Office, as it applies to judgments and orders filed in the Central Office.
(3) Nothing in the foregoing provisions shall be taken as preventing any party to a cause or matter searching for, inspecting and taking or bespeaking a copy of any affidavit or other document filed in that cause or matter or filed before the commencement of that cause or matter but made with a view to its commencement.
[E.O. 63 r. 4]
(4) For the purpose of this rule, a decree made in chambers in a limitation action as defined in Order 75, rule 1(2), shall be deemed to have been made in Court.
[E.O. 75 r. 46(4)]