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Evidence Act 2006

Trial process - Documentary evidence and evidence produced by machine, device, or technical process - General and special rules

133: Summary of voluminous documents

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"Summarising lots of documents for court"

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If you have a lot of documents to show in court, you can give a summary of what they say. You need to ask the Judge if you can do this and tell the other people involved in the case beforehand. The Judge might ask you to bring the actual documents to court so everyone can look at them. You might also be asked to make the documents available for the other people involved in the case to look at and copy outside of court.

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Part 3Trial process
Documentary evidence and evidence produced by machine, device, or technical process: General and special rules

133Summary of voluminous documents

  1. A party may, if notice is given to all other parties in sufficient time before the hearing and with the permission of the Judge, give evidence of the contents of a voluminous document or a voluminous compilation of documents by means of a summary or chart.

  2. A party offering evidence by means of a summary or chart must, if the Judge so directs on the request of another party or on the Judge’s own initiative, either—

  3. produce the voluminous document or voluminous compilation of documents for examination in court during the hearing; or
    1. make it available for examination and copying by other parties at a reasonable time and place.