Article 3 Persons who may apply for court files

(1)

An application for a court file held by the Office will be accepted from a person (an “applicant”) who, at the time of the application, is aged eighteen years or older and who meets any of the following eligibility criteria—

(a)

a person who appears to the Department to be—

(i)

a person who has sustained physical or psychological injury as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file;

(ii)

a person who has been bereaved as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file; or

(iii)

a person who has been seriously adversely affected, in a manner other than as described at (i) and (ii), as a result of an incident which has been recorded in a court file.

(b)

a solicitor acting on behalf of a person who meets any of the eligibility criteria set out at rule 3(1)(a).

(c)

an employee of a charity acting on behalf of a person who meets any of the eligibility criteria set out at rule 3(1)(a).