Civil Law and Criminal Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020
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Notice of business records evidence | ||
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15. (1) Information in a document shall not, without the leave of the court, be admissible in evidence by virtue of section 14 at a civil trial unless— | ||
(a) a copy of the document has been served on the other party or parties, or | ||
(b) not later than 21 days before the commencement of the civil trial, a notice of intention so to give the information in evidence, together with a copy of the document, is served by or on behalf of the party proposing to give it in evidence on each of the other parties to the proceedings. | ||
(2) A party to the proceedings on whom a notice has been served pursuant to subsection (1) shall not, without the leave of the court, object to the admissibility in evidence of the whole or any specified part of the information concerned unless, not later than 7 days before the commencement of the civil trial, a notice objecting to its admissibility is served by or on behalf of that party on each of the other parties to the proceedings. | ||
(3) A document required by this section to be served on any person may be served— | ||
(a) by delivering it to him or her or to his or her solicitor, | ||
(b) by addressing it to him or her and leaving it at his or her usual or last known residence or place of business or by addressing it to his or her solicitor and leaving it at the solicitor’s office, | ||
(c) by sending it by registered post to him or her at his or her usual or last known residence or place of business or to his or her solicitor at the solicitor’s office, or | ||
(d) in the case of a body corporate, by delivering it to the secretary or clerk of the body at its registered or principal office or sending it by registered post to the secretary or clerk of that body at that office. | ||
(4) This section is without prejudice to provisions in any other enactment concerning the power to produce evidential material. |