Consolidated practice directions

4. 
Hearing of applications and subsequent activity
4.1. An application to proceed without notice shall be heard by a Judge in 
private chambers, without notice being given to any person the subject 
of the application. If the application is refused, any substantive 
application must be brought on notice and this Practice Direction has 
no further application. If the application is granted, the substantive 
application will also be heard, by the same Judge, without notice being 
given to any person the subject of the application in private chambers. 
No person (including members of the Judge's personal staff) other than 
the Judge, the applicant or a legal representative of the applicant may 
be present at the hearing unless at the direction of the Judge and with 
the consent of the applicant that other person is required to attend the 
hearing to provide further information or to give evidence concerning 
the application.
4.2 In respect to the hearing of both an application to proceed without 
notice and a substantive application referred to in par 4.1 where an 
application to proceed without notice has been granted: 
(a) The Judge may make such note as the Judge shall think fit 
concerning the application, the result of the application, the order 
made and any such other information as the Judge thinks is 
necessary or appropriate in the circumstances. In addition to, or 
instead of making notes, the Judge may initial each page of the 
affidavit. 

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5. General Division - Criminal 
 
PD 5.4 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
(b) At the conclusion of the hearing the Judge will if appropriate, 
complete and sign the draft order and hand it to the applicant or 
the applicant's representative. 
(c) All documents issued as a result of the hearing shall have the 
number allocated in par 3.6(a) recorded on them. 
(d) Where the Judge has made a note of the order made, the Court 
need not retain any other copy of the order. 
(e) Immediately after the hearing the Judge will place any note 
referred to in par 4.2(a), the application, the affidavit and any 
other relevant document in an envelope and hand it to the 
Associate.
(f) 
The Associate shall seal any such documents in the envelope and 
label it:
'CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004, s 138 and 
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE RULES 2005, r 22 
Note of proceedings before [name of Judge] on [date].
Nature of action taken [eg, order made in terms of 
application, application dismissed]
Number 
NOTE: This envelope is not to be opened other than in 
accordance with the order of a Judge.' 
(g) The Associate shall deliver the envelope to the Court Officer who 
shall place the envelope in a secure area of the vault set aside for 
the purpose. 
(h) The envelope shall not be opened other than in accordance with 
the order of a Judge. If such an order is made then, immediately 
after the further hearing or action, the Associate to the Judge shall 
re-seal the envelope and endorse it with a note to this effect:
'Envelope opened on [date] by order of [name of Judge]
Record of proceedings before [name of Judge] on [date].
Nature of the action taken [give brief details]
Envelope re-sealed on [date].'

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5. General Division - Criminal 
 
PD 5.4 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
(i) 
Immediately after the further hearing or action the Associate to 
the Judge shall deliver the envelope to the Court Officer who shall 
return it to the secure area of the vault. 
(j) 
An envelope containing documents in accordance with the above 
paragraphs shall not be open to inspection by any person other 
than as required or authorised by law. 
(k) Whenever possible, all proceedings in relation to an order after it 
has been made shall be dealt with by the Judge who made the 
order. 
4.3 The fact that an application to proceed without notice or order to that 
effect has been made or the content of such an application or order shall 
not be disclosed to any person other than the applicant for the order, 
their legal representative, or a member of the staff of the Supreme Court 
or a Judge in the normal course of the Court's business, except with 
leave of a Judge. The same level of confidentiality must also be 
maintained in respect of the substantive application the subject of the 
application to proceed without notice, unless and until the substantive 
application is made on notice. 

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5. General Division - Criminal 
 
Supreme Court of Western Australia 
Consolidated Practice Direction
5.5
Early compliance with a witness summons to 
produce a record or thing