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Practice notes issued by the Chief Justice

In conjunction with the commencement of the Federal Court Rules 2011, with effect from 31 July 2011 all then existing Practice Notes were revoked. With effect from 1 August 2011 new Practice Notes as shown in the table below were issued.

Title		Issued Date
Admiralty
ADM 1	Admiralty and maritime work in the Federal Court of Australia Convening Judges	1 Aug 2011
Appeals
APP 1	Listings for Full Court and Appellate Sittings	1 Aug 2011
APP 2	Content of appeal books and preparation for hearing	1 Aug 2011
Arbitration
ARB 1	Proceedings under the International Arbitration Act 1974 Convening Judges	1 Aug 2011
Case Management
CM 1	Case management and the Individual Docket System	1 Aug 2011
CM 2	List of authorities, citation of cases and legislation for proceedings generally	1 Aug 2011
CM 3	Consent orders in proceedings involving a Federal Tribunal	1 Aug 2011
CM 4	Costs - lump sum costs under Rule 40.02(b) of the Federal Court Rules 2011	1 Aug 2011
CM 5	Discovery	1 Aug 2011
CM 6	Electronic technology in litigation Default document management protocol Example of an advanced document management protocol Pre-discovery conference checklist Pre-trial checklist Glossary to Practice Note CM 6 and related materials	1 Aug 2011
CM 7	Expert witnesses in proceedings in the Federal Court of Australia	1 Aug 2011
CM 8	Fast Track	1 Aug 2011
CM 9	Freezing orders	1 Aug 2011
CM 10	Investment accounts under Rule 2.42 of the Federal Court Rules 2011	1 Aug 2011
CM 11	Search orders	1 Aug 2011
CM 12	Service of documents outside of Australia	1 Aug 2011
CM 13	Survey evidence	1 Aug 2011
CM 14	Usual undertaking as to damages	1 Aug 2011
CM 15	Allocation of proceedings to Divisions of the Court – Direction under s 13(5) of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth)	1 Aug 2011
CM 16	Pre-judgment interest	1 Aug 2011
CM 17	Representative proceedings commenced under Part IVA of the Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 (Cth)	1 Aug 2011
CM 18	Title of proceedings for relief under section 39B of the Judiciary Act 1903 against Fair Work Australia	21 Sep 2011
CM 19	Appointment of a judge as an examiner to take evidence overseas	21 Sep 2011
CM 20	Ex parte applications for substituted service in bankruptcy proceedings and applications for examination summonses under section 81 Bankruptcy Act 1966 and sections 596A and 596B Corporations Act 2001 *** commences 6 February 2012	6 Feb 2012
Corporations
CORP 1	Interlocutory process and pleadings in corporations matters	1 Aug 2011
CORP 2	Cross-border insolvency – cooperation with foreign courts or foreign representatives	1 Aug 2011
CORP 3	Schemes of arrangement	1 Aug 2011
Intellectual Property
IP 1	Proceedings under the Patents Act 1990 (Cth)	1 Aug 2011
Native Title
NTA 1	New Practice Note being prepared.
NTA 2	New Practice Note being prepared.
Taxation
TAX 1	Tax list Tax List Coordinating Judges	1 Aug 2011
General
GEN 1	Court sittings and Registry hours	1 Aug 2011
GEN 2	Documents	1 Aug 2011
GEN 3	Use of Court forms	1 Aug 2011

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