UPC CoA 10/2026

The Court of Appeal ruled on public access to the register under R. 262.1(b) RoP in the Sumi Agro v Syngenta proceedings. The Court established that reasoned requests for written pleadings and evidence lodged at the Court of First Instance must be made to the relevant CFI Division, while requests for documents lodged at the Court of Appeal must be made to the CoA. The Court clarified the allocation of responsibilities between Registrar and Deputy-Registrar and held that a request for access must be specified and cannot require the Court to search and select documents based on relevance criteria set by the requesting party. The decision resolved a jurisdictional question about which court body handles public access requests.