SUPREME COURT OF THE
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY
COURT OF APPEAL

PRACTICE DIRECTION 2002 (No 2)

ELECTRONIC APPEAL BOOKS

Notifiable Instrument No. NI2002-310 
made under the Supreme Court Rules Order 86 rule 92

Where a direction is given that the Appeal Book is to be in electronic form the following applies:

(“electronic form” means an Adobe Acrobat PDF document version 4.0 or greater provided on CD-ROM)
1.	The appellant (or respondent if directed) must provide the documents listed in Order 86 Rule 34(1) in electronic form.
2.	Within 21 days of settling the Appeal Papers, or such other time as may be directed, the party required to prepare the appeal papers must file in electronic form all documents comprising the Appeal Papers (Order 86 rule 36),  whether or not they have originally been filed in hard copy.  This may require some documents such as exhibits to be scanned or to be digitally photographed.
3.	On the filing of the appeal papers in electronic form, the court will produce the electronic appeal book bookmarked exactly as the settled appeal index.
4.	The Court will provide a copy of the electronic appeal book on CD-ROM to each party.
5.	Within 7 days of receipt of the electronic appeal book the parties must file in hard copy a certificate of correctness (in the form of Annexure “A” to this Practice Direction) of the material contained in the electronic appeal book.
6.	A party may apply to the Court for a direction concerning the production of the electronic appeal book.
7.	Any CD-ROM filed at the Court must be accompanied by a certificate signed by the solicitor for the party responsible for its preparation (in the form of Annexure “B” to this Practice Direction), that the contents of the CD-ROM have been subject to a virus check and found to be uncontaminated.

By direction of the President
J E CIRCOSTA
Registrar		
11 October 2002
“A”
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE	)	      No. ACTCA                of 20            
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY	)
COURT OF APPEAL		 	)

ON APPEAL FROM [MASTER/JUDGE]

BETWEEN:		[name of appellant]
							Appellant

				AND:			[name of respondent]
							Respondent

CERTIFICATE OF CORRECTNESS

We certify that we have examined the Electronic Appeal Book provided by the court in this appeal and have satisfied ourselves that the material contained in that Electronic Appeal Book constitutes a correct record of the proceedings appealed from.

[NAME OF APPELLANT or			[NAME OF RESPONDENT or
SOLICITORS FOR APPELLANT]			SOLICITORS FOR
RESPONDENT]

……………………………………….	………………………………………

Appellant/Solicitors for Appellant			Respondent/Solicitors for
Respondent

Dated:							Dated:

_____________________________________________________________________
Filed by:							Telephone:
Address for service:  						Facsimile:
								DX:

“B”
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE	)	      No. ACTCA                of 20            
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY	)
COURT OF APPEAL		 	)

ON APPEAL FROM [MASTER/JUDGE]

BETWEEN:		[name of appellant]
							Appellant

				AND:			[name of respondent]
							Respondent

CERTIFICATE 

1.	I am a [solicitor employed by/partner in the firm of] [name of solicitors firm], solicitors for the [appellant/respondent], and have the carriage of this matter.

2.	I have been responsible for the preparation of the CD-ROM filed this day in this matter.

3.	I certify that the contents of the CD-ROM as filed, have been subject to a virus check, conducted on [date], and found to be uncontaminated.

……………………………………….		

[Name of Solicitor] 

Dated:							

_____________________________________________________________________
Filed by:							Telephone:
Address for service:  						Facsimile:
								DX: