Victorian Consolidated Regulations Victorian Consolidated Regulations(1) Subject to this Rule, when the office of the Court is open, any person, on payment of the proper fee, may inspect and obtain a copy of any document filed in a proceeding.
(2) A person not a party may not inspect or obtain a copy of the following documents without leave of the Court—
(a) affidavits;
(b) exhibits to affidavits;
(c) witness statements;
(d) expert reports, including those filed pursuant to Order 33 or Order 44 of these Rules; and
(e) written submissions, outlines of argument and chronologies.
(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to a document that has been—
(a) read or relied on in open court; or
(b) relied on in an application determined without a hearing.
(4) No person may inspect or obtain a copy of a document which the Court has ordered remain confidential.
(5) A person not a party may not, without leave of the Court, inspect or obtain a copy of a document which in the opinion of the Prothonotary, or in the case of a document filed in a proceeding in the Court of Appeal, the Registrar of the Court of Appeal, ought to remain confidential to the parties.