SI 692/2011 provides for the lodgment of documents in each of the offices of the Superior Courts by means other than personal delivery, with effect from 11 January 2012.

In addition to personal filing of documents in the Central Office, documents may now be lodged by means of pre-paid registered post, pre-paid ordinary post, through a document exchange service accepted by the officer, for the time being, managing the Central Office, or by depositing the document in a box or facility manintained for that purpose by the Central Office.

The new methods of delivery do not apply to certain categories of document, as specified in SI 692/2011. Practitioners are urged to take care to ensure that any issues relating to the running of the Statute of Limitations are taken into account when deciding which method of delivery to use, and to consider whether personal filing would be preferable in cases where the time remaining on the statute is short.