The Rules of the Supreme Court (Northern Ireland) (Revision) 1980

Admission and production of documents specified in list of documents

4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and without prejudice to the right of a party to object to the admission in evidence of any document, a party who receives or who is served with a list of documents in pursuance of any provision of Order 24 shall, unless the Court otherwise orders, be deemed to admit—

(a) that any document described in the list as an original document is such a document and was printed, written, signed or executed as it purports respectively to have been, and

(b) that any document described therein as a copy is a true copy.

This paragraph does not apply to a document the authenticity of which the party has denied in his pleading.

(2) If before the expiration of 21 days after inspection of the documents specified in a list of documents or after the time limited for inspection of those documents expires, whichever is the later, the party who receives or who is served with the list serves on the party whose list it is a notice stating, in relation to any document specified therein, that he does not admit the authenticity of that document and requires it to be proved at the trial, he shall not be deemed to make any admission in relation to that document under paragraph (1).

(3) A party to a cause or matter by whom a list of documents is served on any other party in pursuance of any provision of Order 24 shall be deemed to have been served by that other party with a notice requiring him to produce at the trial of the cause or matter such of the documents specified in the list as are in his possession, custody or power.

(4) The foregoing provisions of this rule apply in relation to an affidavit made in compliance with an order under Order 24, rule 5, as they apply in relation to a list of documents served in pursuance of any provision of that Order.