New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL APPEAL RULES - REG 5

5 Signing of notices by solicitor or agent

(1) Any notice may be signed on behalf of the person giving the same by his solicitor or authorised agent:

(1) Where such person is unable to sign such notice in consequence of illness or other sufficient cause,

(2) Where the sanity of the appellant is in question, and

(3) When such person is a corporation.

(2) For the purposes of rule 3 and this rule, a notice is to be taken to have been signed by a solicitor (being a solicitor corporation) if:

(a) it has the corporation's seal affixed to it, or

(b) it is signed by a director of the corporation or by an officer or employee of the corporation who is a solicitor.