Article 23 Confidentiality of documents

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

rule 23 am by Family Proceedings Courts 2009 rules 2, 7
rule 23 am by Family Proceedings Courts 2005 rules 2, 4
rules 22A, 23 am by Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) (Amendment No 3) 2005 rules 2, 6–9
rule 23 am by Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) 2001 rules 2, 15
rule 23(2) words substituted by Magistrates' Courts (Transfer of Justices' Clerks' Functions) 2001 Sch. 1 para. 93

(1)

No document, other than a record of an order, held by the court and relating to relevant proceedings shall be disclosed, other than to–

(a)

a party,

(b)

the legal representative of a party,

(c)

the guardian ad litem,

(d)

the Legal Aid Board, or

(e)

a welfare officer,

without leave of the justices' clerk or the court.

(2)

Nothing in this rule shall prevent the notification by the court or the justices' clerk of a direction under section 37(1) to the authority concerned.