Rule 4.23 Confidentiality of documents

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

rules 10.24-10.25 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 6
rules 2.71-2.77 revoked by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 19
rules 3.1-3.20 (Pt.III) am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force) by Family Proceedings 1999 rule 20
rules 3.21-3.23 added by Family Proceedings 1993 rule 4
rule 4.23(3) added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 8
rules 2.71-2.77 added by Family Proceedings 1997 rule 4
rule 2.45A-2.45B inserted by Family Proceedings 2003 rule 3

(1)

Notwithstanding any rule of court to the contrary, no document, other than a record of an order, held by the court and relating to proceedings to which this Part applies 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 judge or district Judge.

(2)

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