Article 114-8Notice of a Request to Inspect Case Records; Related Matters

①In the event that the ruling provided for in Article 92, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure is reached with regard to cases record in connection with litigation in which a confidentiality protective order has been issued (excluding litigation with regard to which all confidentiality protective orders have been cancelled), if a party to cases requests to inspect, etc. a portion of cases record in which a secret provided for in that paragraph is entered, and the person filing such request is not subject to the confidentiality protective order in the relevant litigation, the court clerk, immediately after such request is filed, must notify the party that filed the petition referred to in that paragraph (unless the person filing that petition is the person filing the request; the same applies in paragraph (3)) that the request has been filed.

②In a case referred to in the preceding paragraph, the court clerk must not allow the person filing the request to inspect, etc. a portion of cases record in which a secret as referred to in that paragraph is entered, until two weeks have passed since the day the court clerk receives the request (or if, during those two weeks, a petition for a confidentiality protective order is filed against the person filing the request, the court clerk must not allow the person filing the request to inspect, etc. such a portion of cases record until the judicial decision on the petition becomes final and binding).

③The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs do not apply if all parties concerned that have filed a petition as referred to in Article 92, paragraph (1) of the Code of Civil Procedure agree to allow the person filing the request referred to in paragraph (1) to inspect, etc. the portions of cases record in which the secrets referred to in that paragraph are entered.