| Federal Court of Australia | |
| Notices to practitioners issued by the Queensland District Registrar |
Notices
of Motion
(No. Q2/99, 14
December 1999)
NB: This Notice to Practitioners has been
superseded by Notices
of Motion dated 23 February 2005)
The court in Queensland has adopted the following process for the listing of notices of motion to ensure they are dealt with in an efficient and timely manner.
A notice of motion must generally be accompanied by an affidavit in support of the motion and an "information sheet" which is available from the registry. If an urgent hearing is required, a letter which outlines the circumstances of the urgency must also be provided to the court.
The party lodging the documents must pay the filing fee before the documents will be accepted. There is no provision for deferral of payment of this fee although the usual provisions relating to waiver and exemption of fees apply.
The party lodging the documents will be given a receipt for the documents. The notice of motion and accompanying material will then be referred to the docket judge for allocation of a hearing date. Registry staff will contact the person whose name appears on the receipt regarding collection of service copies of the documentation as soon as it is available (ordinarily within a day or so of filing). If any delay is expected, the parties will be contacted and advised accordingly.
The judge may have given various directions regarding the conduct of the hearing of the motion such as the preparation of written submissions. These will generally be noted on the reverse side of a formal notice which is stapled to service copies of the motion. It is the responsibility of all parties to the motion to check whether there are any notations on that form as no further notice of any directions which have been given will be provided by the court.
District Registrar