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FEDERAL MAGISTRATES COURT RULES 2001 2001 No. 195- RULE 14.11

Use of documents
(1)
An order or undertaking, whether express or implied, not to use a document for any purpose other than for the proceeding in which it is disclosed does not apply to the document after it has been read to or by the Court or referred to in open Court in such terms as to disclose its contents.

Note
An implied undertaking arises where documents are produced in the process of discovery: Harman v Secretary of State for the Home Department [1983] 1 AC 280.

(2)
Subrule (1) does not apply to a Family Law proceeding and is subject to any order of the Court on the application of a party or of a person to whom the document belongs.



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