Date:

01/21/2010

These practices apply to all Divisions of the Court and to any matters relating to Subpoenas, Notices to Produce and Orders for Production returnable at Court.

The Corporations registrar will conduct the Return of Subpoena List at 9am each day until further notice. The Corporations registrar sits in courtroom 11B on level 11at the Land and Environment Court, 225 Macquarie St, Sydney.

The Return of Subpoena List will be conducted as follows:

1. Call for any documents produced in court. The registrar will note the production and require the producing party to deliver the documents to the Exhibits counter of the Supreme Court Registry (Level 5)
2. Referral of appropriate matters to a Duty Judge (such as applications for contempt).
3. Call for any consent orders and matters needing short adjournments
4. Call for any contested applications and other matters needing to be brought to the Registrar’s attention. These matters will be stood down to be dealt with other contested matters in the Corporations List
5. A general access order will be made in relation to all proceedings except those proceedings that have been stood down to be dealt with other contested matters in the Corporations List


Any interlocutory application (eg. to set aside subpoena/ notice to produce/ order for production, contested access, contested privilege claim, applications to access files produced by other courts or Tribunals etc.) will be made returnable in the Subpoena Directions List.

Parties should be prepared to have short applications dealt with on the date the matter is first listed. Longer matters may need to be stood over to specially fixed dates. The Corporations registrar or another registrar may hear these applications.

A computer printout of all documents produced to the court, to date, in answer to subpoenas, notices to produce and orders for production will be made available at the Exhibits counter of the Supreme Court Registry (Level 5) by 3pm on the day before the return date. An updated list will be available before 9am in court the following day.