Local Court Rules 2009

This rule applies to committal proceedings, summary proceedings and application proceedings.

Unless the Court, or another court or tribunal has ordered otherwise, a person, whether or not a party to the proceedings, may only have access to, or obtain a copy of, a video recording of the proceedings in the Court—

with the leave of a Magistrate or registrar, and

if the person gives an undertaking to the Court that the person will not copy, or permit a person to copy, the video recording, or give possession of the video recording to another person, and

in respect of leave to obtain a copy of the video recording—on payment of the prescribed fee.

A Magistrate or registrar may grant leave for the purposes of subrule (2) if the Magistrate or registrar has determined that the video recording contains evidence that may be relevant—

in proceedings brought in respect of an offence under section 24A of the Act, or

in proceedings in which an official video recording of proceedings in a court or tribunal is admissible in evidence, or

in proceedings for contempt of court, or

in any other proceeding before a court or tribunal, or any other body or person exercising judicial or quasi-judicial functions.

In determining whether to grant a person leave for the purposes of subrule (3), the Magistrate or registrar is to have regard to the matters set out in rule 8.10(5).