Paragraph 7 Filing

(1)

A document may be filed by any of the following methods—

(a)

personal delivery;

(b)

first class post (or an alternative service which provides for delivery on the next working day);

(c)

through a document exchange;

(d)

(with the consent of the Registrar) by electronic means in accordance with the relevant practice direction.

(2)

A document filed by first-class post or through a document exchange will be taken to have been filed on the second day after it was posted or left at the document exchange, as the case may be (not including days which are not business days).

(3)

Except with the consent of the Registrar, the contents of documents

(a)

filed in hard copy must also be provided to the Registry by electronic means, and

(b)

filed by electronic means must also be provided to the Registry in hard copy,

in accordance with the relevant practice direction.

(4)

A Registry officer must seal the following documents when they are filed –

(a)

an application for permission to appeal,

(b)

a notice of objection or acknowledgement by the respondent,

(c)

a notice of appeal,

(d)

an application form

and may place the seal on the document by hand or by printing a facsimile of the seal on the document whether electronically or otherwise.

(5)

A document purporting to bear the Judicial Committee’s seal shall be admissible in evidence without further proof.