Returning documents or things produced in response to a subpoena

1. The purpose of this notice is to inform practitioners and litigants of the arrangements in the Court for the return of documents or things produced in response to a subpoena.

2. The Court will return a document or thing produced in response to a subpoena to the person who is the subject of the subpoena (‘the addressee’) in accordance with Order 27 rule 10 of the Federal Court Rules within a reasonable time after the conclusion of the proceeding in which the document or thing was produced. 

3. Where a party to a proceeding tenders a document or thing produced in response to a subpoena as an exhibit or asks that the document or thing be marked for identification, the party or their legal representative must at that time provide to the Associate to the presiding Judge the name of the addressee who produced the document or thing.

W G Soden
Registrar

2 June 2008

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