High Court Rules (Amendment) (Cth)

 

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2571

High Court of Australia

High Court Rules2 (Amendment)

PURSUANT to the Judiciary Act 1903 as amended and to all other powers thereunto enabling, il is ordered that the High Court Rules, being Statutory Rules 1952, No. 23, as amended, be further amended as shown hereunder.

Dated this 18th day of October 1983.

H. T. GIBBS
A. F. MASON
L. K. MURPHY
RON WILSON
(L.S.)	F. G. BRENNAN
WILLIAM DEANE
DARYL DAWSON
Justices

FRANK JONES

Registrar

AMENDMENT OF THE RULES

(1) Order 43a is amended by adding a new rule as follows:

“3. Every award of costs under a judgment of the High Court of Australia shall carry interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum from the date of the certificate of taxation quantifying the same.”

(2) Order 59 is amended as follows:

(a) Delete rule 5 (2);

(b) Amend rule 6 (1) by deleting the words “except in the vacations when they shall be from nine o’clock in the forenoon until one o’clock in the afternoon”;

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(c) Add a new rule, as follows:

“7. A Registry may in the discretion of the Registrar, and shall on the direction of a Justice, be opened at any time for urgent business.”

(3) Order 70 rule 12 is amended by adding a new sub-rule as follows:

“5. In exceptional circumstances, the power referred to in sub-rule (4) of this rule may be exercised as if ‘appellant’ includes an applicant for special leave to appeal and ‘appeal’ includes an application for such leave.”

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 2 November 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1952 No. 23 as amended by 1953 Nos. 1 and 46; 1954 No. 102; 1955 Nos. 25 and 34; 1959 No. 107; 1960 Nos. 19 and 94; 1961 Nos. 19 and 89; 1968 No. 4; 1970 No. 17; 1973 Nos. 94 and 205; 1976 No. 44: 1977 No. 41; 1978 Nos. 10 and 46; 1980 Nos. 88 and 296; 1981 No. 24; 1982 Nos. 77, 164, 216 and 262.

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