New South Wales Consolidated Regulations

CRIMINAL APPEAL RULES - REG 8A

8A Copy of summing up and remarks on sentence

(1) Subject to subrules (3) and (4), access to a copy of the summing up, the remarks on sentence or any judgment is not to be allowed to the proper officer of the Court of Trial, the Registrar, any Judge of the Court, or any party, until it has been submitted to the Judge of the Court of Trial and copied in accordance with his or her revision.

(2) Upon the proper officer of the Court of Trial notifying the Reporting Services Branch of the Attorney General's Department that notice of intention to appeal, notice of intention to apply for leave to appeal, notice of appeal or notice of application for leave to appeal has been sent to the Registrar in relation to any proceedings, the Reporting Services Branch is to furnish to the proper officer, when available, a copy of the summing up, the remarks on sentence and any judgment, being a copy that has been submitted to and corrected by the Judge of the Court of Trial.

(3) If a corrected copy of the summing up, the remarks on sentence or any judgment has not been received by the Reporting Services Branch within 3 weeks, or such other period as the Registrar of the Court of Criminal Appeal may fix, from the date when a copy of the unrevised transcript of it was made available to the Judge of the Court of Trial, the Reporting Services Branch is, on the expiration of the period, to furnish to the proper officer of the Court of Trial a copy of the unrevised transcript.

(4) The Court or a Judge of the Court may, for special cause, order that access be allowed to an uncorrected copy of the summing up, remarks on sentence or judgment.