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Acceptable Use Policy

A virtual sitting is a sitting of the court. The same duties of candour, decorum and confidentiality apply, and this policy states them in platform terms.

Last updated 5 August 2026

Identity

  • Appear under your own name and in your own role. Impersonating a judge, court officer, counsel, party or witness is a serious breach and may be a criminal offence.
  • Do not share credentials or forward a sitting invitation. Each invitation is issued to one named person and is authentication-protected.
  • Witnesses receive their own protected invitation and must not be coached, prompted or joined from another participant's account or device.

Decorum

  • Address the bench by the appellation shown against your name.
  • Remain muted until the clerk grants you the floor; seek leave to speak using the hand-raise control.
  • Do not display, transmit or broadcast material that is abusive, threatening or irrelevant to the proceedings.
  • The clerk may mute, restore or remove a participant on the direction of the presiding judge; removals are noted in the record.

Confidentiality and recording

  • Unauthorised capture, screenshotting, screen-recording or rebroadcast of a sitting is prohibited unless the court expressly permits it.
  • The certified written record produced by the platform is the official record of the sitting.
  • Sealed, in-camera and child-related proceedings must not be discussed or disclosed outside the courtroom.
  • Case bundles and exhibits shared with you are for the purposes of the proceedings only.

Platform integrity

  • Do not attempt to bypass access controls, probe another court's data, or interfere with the availability of a sitting.
  • Do not upload malware or content you have no right to share.

Consequences

Breach may lead to removal from a sitting, suspension of an account by the registrar, referral to the presiding judge, and — for conduct amounting to contempt or an offence — such action as the court and the law direct.

This page is maintained by the Verdict platform operator and describes the platform's own practices and the controls available to a licensed court. It is not an independent certification or audit, and it does not replace the practice directions, rules of court or written law of any jurisdiction. Each licensed court remains the controller of its own case data and publishes its own notices to court users.