Rule 7 Filing
Documents shall be filed in the Registry by portal and non-portal parties in accordance with this rule.
Save where otherwise expressly provided for by these rules, a portal party must file all documents via the portal in accordance with the relevant practice direction.
A non-portal party may file a document by any of the following methods—
personal delivery;
a service which provides for tracked delivery and which notifies the sender of the date on which the document is delivered to the addressee;
electronic means.
A document filed by personal delivery or by electronic means is treated as filed on the day it is delivered or sent electronically. A document filed by a tracked delivery service is treated as filed on the day on which it is delivered to the addressee, according to the notification provided by the service to the sender.