Documents
1.08 Documents
1.08.1 Unless these Rules provide otherwise, a document to be filed in the Court must:
be in clear, sharp, legible and permanent type of at least 12 point size; and
be in A4 size; and
have margins of at least 2.5 cm at the top, bottom, left and right sides; and
have each page numbered and every tenth line on each page numbered in the left margin; and
be without erasure or alteration that causes material disfigurement; and
comply with any other requirements relating to formatting specified in a Practice Direction.
1.08.2 Unless these Rules provide otherwise, the first page of a document to be filed in the Court must be indorsed:
first, with the title of the proceeding or proposed proceeding in which it is filed;
next, with a short description of the document including, in the case of an affidavit, the name of the deponent;
at the foot of the page with:
the date of the document;
the party or other persons on whose behalf it is filed.
1.08.6 If:
a document is to be filed in the Court; and
the document contains information to which a suppression order, a non‑publication order, or any other confidentiality order, made by a court applies;
the document must be accompanied by a copy of the relevant order.
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