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It restricts non-parties from inspecting or obtaining key affidavit-related documents without court leave until tendered, read, or relied on in open court or a hearingless application. 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The change outlined in section 1.1 (b) will be mandatory from 1 March 2022. However, parties and practitioners are encouraged to comply with the change from the date of this Notice.\nFile inspections\nRule 28.05 now provides that a person who is not a party may not inspect or obtain a copy of the following documents without leave of the Court until the document has been tendered, read or otherwise relied on in the course of a hearing, or relied on in an application determined without a hearing:\naffidavits;\nexhibits to affidavits;\nwitness statements;\nexpert reports; and\nwritten submissions, outlines of argument and chronologies.\nThe Access to Court Records form has been updated to reflect this change.\nFiling of affidavits\nFrom 1 March 2022 the Court will no longer accept affidavits for filing that:\ninclude multiple exhibits; or\nseparate the affidavit from its exhibit (if any).\nSolicitors must continue to submit their affidavits and exhibits via CITEC. If the document exceeds the current file size limit, please contact the CITEC Customer Service Centre who will attempt to reduce the size of the document. If this is not possible CITEC will send the document through to the Court for filing. Please note that the CITEC file size limit will soon be increased, and practitioners will be notified of this change.\nAny affidavit that is filed with the Court must:\nsubject to section 3.4, include a maximum of one exhibit. If more than one document is referred to in the affidavit, the documents must be combined into a single ‘bundle exhibit’, ordered in the sequence they are referred to in the affidavit;\nhave legible page numbers at the bottom right-hand corner of each page that correspond with the digital display page numbers of the PDF that commence from the first page of the affidavit to the last page of the bundle exhibit;\nsubject to section 3.4, be in a single fully text-searchable PDF format file, including any bundle exhibit; and\nelectronically bookmark, in the pdf file, each referenced document in the exhibit with its short-form name (for example, ‘Contract dated 6 April 2020’).\nWhere any document referred to in an affidavit is claimed to be confidential, the affidavit may include an additional ‘confidential bundle exhibit’. Any such ‘confidential bundle exhibit’ should be submitted via CITEC as an electronic document separate from the electronic document containing the affidavit and main ‘bundle exhibit’. For more information on this please visit \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://www.countycourt.vic.gov.au/civil-efiling\" \u0014Civil eFiling\u0015 on the County Court website.\nAn affidavit template is attached as an annexure to this notice and is available on the County Court website. A sample affidavit is also available and can be accessed \u0013 HYPERLINK \"https://countycourt.vic.gov.au/files/documents/2022-02/county-court-sample-affidavit.pdf\" \u0014here\u0015.\n\u000f\nAnnexure\nIN THE COUNTY COURT OF VICTORIA\nAT [LOCATION]\n[DIVISION – LIST]\nNo. [proceeding no.]\nB E T W E E N\nPlaintiff\n-and-\nDefendant\nAFFIDAVIT\nI, [full name] of [insert address], [insert occupation], make oath and say or affirm:\n[**NOTE: Where the deponent is referring to one document in the affidavit include “Now produced and shown to me and marked ‘‘[initials of deponent-1]” is a copy of the [describe document].”\nWhere the deponent is referring to more than one","cbCailWAhqjpTSz7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailWAhqjpTSz7","docx",1150226,6,"English","# Introduction\n## File inspections\n## Filing of affidavits\n## Annexure - Form templates","[{\"question\":\"When do the inspection and filing changes become mandatory for Commercial and Common Law Divisions?\",\"answer\":\"The change described in section 1.1(b) becomes mandatory from 1 March 2022, though parties and practitioners are encouraged to comply from the date of the notice.\"},{\"question\":\"What documents can a non-party not inspect or copy without leave after the amendments?\",\"answer\":\"A non-party may not inspect or obtain copies of affidavits, exhibits to affidavits, witness statements, expert reports, and written submissions, outlines of argument, and chronologies without court leave until the documents are tendered, read, or relied on in a hearing or relied on in a hearingless application.\"},{\"question\":\"What rules apply to affidavits filed from 1 March 2022?\",\"answer\":\"The court will not accept affidavits that include multiple exhibits or that separate the affidavit from its exhibit. 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