Australian Capital Territory Numbered Regulations

SUPREME COURT RULES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 8 OF 1997) - NOTES

NOTES

Principal Regulations

1. Reprinted as at 31 January 1997.

Notification

2. Notified in the ACT Gazette on 23 April 1997.

Rule Headings

On the day on which the Supreme Court Rules are amended by these Rules, in addition to any alteration of rule headings indicated in the text of these Rules, headings to provisions in the Supreme Court Rules are altered as set out in the following table:

Rule Alteration

Order 8, rule 2 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Notice of change of solicitor

Order 8, rule 3 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Notice of appointment of solicitor

Order 8, rule 6 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Withdrawal of solicitor from the record

Order 10, rule 7 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Application to recover vacant land

Order 12, rule 2 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Jurisdictional criteria

Order 12, rule 10 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Service where a Convention applies

Order 15, rule 3 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Defence

Order 15, rule 4 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Summary judgment for part of claim

Order 15, rule 5 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Multiple defendants

Order 16, rule 3 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Defence

Order 17, rule 2 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Defence by plaintiff

Order 17, subrule 2 (2) Omit the subrule heading.

Order 19, rule 14 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Change of parties—amendment of application

Order 31, rule 6 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Claims for debt and liquidated demands— Interlocutory and final judgments

Order 54, rule 13 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Formal order not required

Order 54, subrules
13 (2) and (3) Omit the subrule headings.

Order 57, rule 1 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Construction of instruments

Order 57, rule 2 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Construction of legislation

Order 58, rule 1 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Applications for relief without administration

Order 58, rule 2 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Applications for administration

Order 58, paragraphs
2 (a), (b) and (c) Omit the paragraph headings.

Order 58, rule 3 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Service—applications for administration

Order 58, rule 4 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Applications for foreclosure or redemption

Order 58, rule 5 Omit the heading, substitute the following heading:

Service—applications for foreclosure or redemption

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TABLE OF PROVISIONS

Rule

5. General heading style—First Schedule Forms

ORDER 2
COMMENCEMENT OF ACTIONS

Division 1—Procedure on originating application

1. Commencement by originating application

2. Date of commencement

3. Oral applications

4. Form of originating application

5. Corporate information

6. Address for service

7. Time for appearance

8. Identification of action

9. Identification of relief sought

10. Statements of claim

11. Claims for debt and liquidated demands

12. Motor vehicle personal injury claims

13. Employment personal injury claims

14. Originating applications with no defendant

15. Notice to defendants

16. Filing and sealing of originating applications

17. Further sealed copies

18. Authorisation for service

19. Cause book

20. Solicitor's declaration as to filing

21. Directions hearings

22. Interlocutory hearings

Division 2—Duration and renewal
of originating applications

23. Duration of originating applications

24. Renewal for good cause

25. Renewal to avoid statute-bar

26. Endorsement of renewal

Division 3—Inactive cases

27. List of Inactive Cases

28. Entry on List—7 months after commencement of action

29. Entry on List—4 months after renewal of originating application

30. Removal from List

31. Dismissal of action following entry on List

Division 4—Evidence

32. Sealing of originating applications

ORDER 3
UNCONTESTED ACTIONS—
DEBTS AND LIQUIDATED DEMANDS

1. Payment of amounts claimed in originating applications

2. Taxation of costs

3. Taxation of costs—judgment in default of appearance

1. Defence to claims for debt and liquidated demands

1A. Defences to motor vehicle and employment personal injuries claims

1. Judgment Book

Australian Capital Territory

Supreme Court Rules¹ (Amendment)

Subordinate Law No. 8 of 1997²

We, Judges of the Supreme Court, make the following Rules of Court under section 36 of the Supreme Court Act 1933.

Dated 14 April 1997.

JEFFREY MILES
Chief Justice

J F GALLOP
Judge

T J HIGGINS
Judge

A G TOWILL
Registrar

Commencement