District Court Rules 2005

If a party is dissatisfied with a decision of a registrar the party may appeal to a judge.

The appeal must be commenced within 10 days after the date of the decision or such longer period as a judge or legally qualified registrar may allow.

The appeal must be commenced by filing and serving a notice in the form of Form 6A, stating the following —

the order or direction appealed against;

the order or directions sought on the appeal.

There must be at least 7 clear days between service of the notice and the date for the hearing of the appeal, unless otherwise ordered.

On receiving notice from the Court of the date of the hearing of the appeal, a party who appeals under this rule must serve notice of the hearing date on each other party within 5 days after the date on which the party received that notice from the Court.

The appeal does not operate as a stay of proceedings unless a judge or legally qualified registrar orders otherwise.

The appeal is to be by way of a new hearing of the matter that was before the registrar.