2. Interpretation
In these Rules —
“Court” means the District Courts situated in the State of Saint Lucia and includes the Family Court;
“Court's Registry” includes the registries at the Court;
“Court's website” means the website of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court;
“Electronic Litigation Portal” means the web-based application which has been developed and implemented to offer stakeholders in the judicial system of the Eastern Caribbean a single point of access for electronic litigation filing, management of documents and case files within the Court's Registry;
“electronic mail” means the transmission of messages via an electronic device or an internet communication network;
“electronic means” means a form of electronic communication of the contents of a document and includes the use of an online application, e-mail, online shared drives, CD ROMs, USB Drives, or Facsimile;
“party” includes both the party to the matter and any legal practitioner on record for that party unless any rule specifies or it is clear from the context that it relates to the client or to the legal practitioner only;
“payment facility” includes the means provided for the payment and acceptance of filing fees for documents filed on the Electronic Litigation Portal including cash through a cashier at the court office, an escrow account, credit card payment facility or other payment facility.