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When must Cayman listed documents be available for inspection?

The notice must name an inspection time within seven days after its service. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place. The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.

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Period
The notice must name an inspection time within seven days after its service
Trigger
Service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice
Rule
Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9
Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9. Official current index and full primary bodies retained October 10, 2026. The 2024 replacement Orders 1 and 64 and 2026 Order 24 rule 7A amendment are retained separately.

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The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment. Establish service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice and the actual completion required to serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

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When must Cayman listed documents be available for inspection?

The notice must name an inspection time within seven days after its service. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place. The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.

Responsible actor. Party serving a document list.

Service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice.

The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.

The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

How does this provision count time?

  1. Establish service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice.
  2. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place.
  3. Serve notice at list service. For the seven-day interval, Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes weekends and public general holidays.
  4. Inspection at the stated place is not a Court Office act. Do not invent a generic next-open-office carry.

Serve notice at list service. For the seven-day interval, Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes weekends and public general holidays.

Inspection at the stated place is not a Court Office act. Do not invent a generic next-open-office carry.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Which facts prevent one automatic date?

The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment. Establish service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice and the actual completion required to serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place.

ResultRead the operative provision and establish the applicable branch.

Party serving a document list establishes service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice. Serve notice at list service. For the seven-day interval, Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes weekends and public general holidays. The notice must name an inspection time within seven days after its service. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place. Establish the actual completion facts before calculating a final date.

A proposed completion or status boundary intersects a closure or holiday while the party seeks to serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place. Inspection at the stated place is not a Court Office act. Do not invent a generic next-open-office carry. Establish the applicable closure and completion rule. This guide does not supply an assumed carried date.

The party sends its notice seven days after its list instead of with it. The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment. Resolve the changed source branch and required completion. The nominal period alone does not establish this scenario.

Which conditions and exceptions apply?

Actual procedure and branch
The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.
Count and complete the actual act
Serve notice at list service. For the seven-day interval, Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes weekends and public general holidays. Inspection at the stated place is not a Court Office act. Do not invent a generic next-open-office carry.
Actor and required completion
Party serving a document list. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place.
Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9
  • The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.
  • Party serving a document list. Service of the document list and accompanying inspection notice. Serve the notice with the list and allow inspection and copying at the stated place. The seven-day period concerns inspection availability. It is not permission to wait seven days before sending the notice. Objections to production require separate treatment.

What must the responsible actor complete?

Questions about this procedure

When must Cayman listed documents be available for inspection?

When must the notice accompany the list?

What does seven days measure?

The inspection time stated in the notice after notice service.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Are copies permitted?

Yes. Rule 9 requires inspection and taking copies of producible listed documents.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Can a party withhold disputed documents?

Rule 9 excepts documents the party objects to produce. The objection can be examined under rule 11.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Is inspection available only at court?

No. The notice states a place for inspection.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Are weekends counted in seven days?

Order 3 rule 2(5) excludes them and public general holidays in a period of seven days or less.

Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9

Official sources and review

Provisions used (4)
Provisions used in this guide
ProvisionPurpose
Grand Court Rules (2023 Revision), Order 24, rule 9Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Grand Court Rules, Order 3 rules 1, 2, 4 and 5Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Grand Court (Amendment) Rules 2024, rules 1–3 and replacement Orders 1 and 64Check the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
Grand Court (Amendment) Rules 2026, Order 24 rule 7ACheck the identified procedure, event, counting rule or qualification
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