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CPR 5.4C requires an application if a non party wants copy pleadings. What is the position if a party to litigation disclosed all the pleadings to non party? Would that be contempt of court?

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Published on: 19 April 2023
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Disclosure of pleadings

CPR 5.4C provides that, as a general rule, a person who is not a party to litigation is entitled to obtain from the court copies of the pleadings:

'(1) The general rule is that a person who is not a party to proceedings may obtain from the court records a copy of –

(a) a statement of case, but not any documents filed with or attached to the statement of case, or intended by the party whose statement it is to be served with it;

(b) a judgment or order given or made in public (whether made at a hearing or without a hearing).'

The Civil Procedure Rules do not say anything, however, about whether a party can voluntarily share the pleadings with a non-party without the non-party having to make an application to the court to obtain

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