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Motor Vehicle Accident

NSW

This publication helps practitioners to navigate the complex and technical legislation that applies to motor accident claims in New South Wales.

3 Matter Plans

Overview

Two guides are included: Accidents prior to 1 December 2017 and Accidents from 1 December 2017, as different legislative schemes apply. 

The commentary covers critical time limits and dispute resolution processes for each step of a claim. It also discusses the highly restricted nature of the benefits available and costs recoverable for claimants and addresses the supporting material required to obtain the best result for the claimant.

The Reference materials folder includes guidance on electronic signing and witnessing, and the comprehensive Getting the matter underway folder includes compliance and client care documents. Using the extensive Retainer Instructions when gathering information ensures nothing is missed.

Also included is 101 Subpoena Answers, which is a useful reference guide.

Precedents in this publication include:

  • Gathering information letters to the client, insurer, and relevant authorities;
  • Medical authorities;
  • Various letters to the client explaining the process at each stage;
  • Letters to doctors;
  • Applications for statutory benefits;
  • Example pleadings and particulars for common law damages.
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3 Matter Plans Included

  • Item icon ALERTS - Nil
  • Item icon Full Commentary - Motor Vehicle Accident (NSW) - Accidents from 1 December 2017
  • Folder icon Reference materials
    • Item icon AI Prompts
      An AI prompt defines a specific task for AI to perform, like drafting a particular document, and provides clear instructions on how to execute that task. The goal is for the AI to quickly create a useful first draft of a document, which the user verifies and refines into a final version, ultimately ...

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    • Item icon Looking to the Future
    • Item icon Electronic Signing and Witnessing
    • Item icon Medical Glossary
    • Item icon 101 Subpoena Answers
    • Item icon 101 Costs Answers
    • Folder icon Papers and articles - Litigation
      • Item icon Improving written submissions - A paper by Judge Alan Troy
      • Item icon Plain language – A paper by the Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
    • Folder icon Demonstrating the use of precedents
      • Item icon Demonstrating the Use of Precedents
        To demonstrate the range of precedents available in the guide and to illustrate how they can be adapted to a particular matter, one set of precedents are based on a set of facts in a debt recovery that escalates when a cross-claim is brought alleging a course of conduct between the parties and a ...

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      • Item icon Demonstration - Letter of demand
      • Item icon Demonstration - Response to letter of demand
      • Item icon Demonstration - Pleadings and particulars
      • Item icon Demonstration - Request for further and better particulars
      • Item icon Demonstration - Defence
      • Item icon Demonstration - Affidavit of defendant
      • Item icon Demonstration - Cross-claim or counterclaim
      • Item icon Demonstration - Defence to cross claim or counterclaim
      • Item icon Demonstration - Calderbank offer
      • Item icon Demonstration - ADR order - Referral to mediation
      • Item icon Demonstration - Mediation position paper - Plaintiff
      • Item icon Demonstration - Mediation position paper - Defendant
      • Item icon Demonstration - Consent orders
      • Item icon Demonstration - Deed of release - Settlement of proceedings
    • Item icon Further information
  • Item icon Overview and limitation periods
    The motor accidents scheme The compensation scheme under the Motor Accidents Injuries Act 2017 (MAIA) applies to all motor vehicle accidents in New South Wales (NSW) that occur after 1 December 2017.

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  • Item icon Summary of the process
    The usual steps in acting for a motor vehicle accident claimant who is not catastrophically injured but whose permanent impairment from injuries caused by the accident exceeds 10% include:

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  • Folder icon A. Getting the matter underway
    • Item icon File cover sheet - Motor vehicle accident - Accidents from 1 December 2017
    • Item icon First steps
    • Item icon Client details and verifying identity
    • Item icon Retainer instructions - Motor vehicle accident - Accidents from 1 December 2017
    • Item icon Conflict of interest check
    • Item icon Initial letter to client with costs
    • Item icon Taking instructions on motor vehicle accident matters
      A client will see a lawyer either specifically because they want advice about an injury that they or a family member have suffered in a motor accident or to seek advice about an entirely different matter and happen to mention difficulties arising from a motor accident. In either of the above ...

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    • Item icon Costs
      Costs restrictions See the SIRA website and the Motor Accident Guidelines for more information about the onerous and restrictive costs requirements for motor accident claims.

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    • Item icon Standard costs disclosure form for clients - Fees under $3000
    • Item icon Time and costs estimates
    • Folder icon If required - Updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Letter to client updating costs disclosure
      • Item icon Charge securing costs
      • Item icon Guarantee securing costs
      • Folder icon Costs disclosure before settlement in litigation matters
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - NSW, VIC, and WA
        • Item icon Letter to client - Costs disclosure before settlement - QLD, SA, TAS, ACT, and NT
    • Item icon Letter to client - Contract out of regulated costs
    • Item icon Motor Accident Injuries Regulation 2017 - Schedule 1
    • Folder icon If required - Not proceeding
      • Item icon Letter to client when not proceeding before anything has been done
    • Item icon Damages and economic loss
      Section 4.3 mandates that damages may only be awarded for economic loss and non-economic loss as defined under the MAIA. The Civil Liability Act 2002 has no application. Further, s 4.4 of the MAIA prevents any damages from being awarded to a person who has only suffered a threshold ...

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    • Item icon Time limitations
      The Limitation Act 1969 does not apply to proceedings for claims under the MAIA: s 6.32(5). The MAIA sets out various limitation periods for claims and procedural steps.

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    • Item icon Online claim notification - SIRA
    • Item icon Initial letter to defendant's insurer with accident notification form
    • Item icon Contributory negligence
      An injured person who is partially at fault can claim benefits but any entitlement to damages will be reduced in accordance with the degree of contributory negligence: s 3.38 of the MAIA. See s 4.17 as to contributory negligence generally, including the requirement that a finding of ...

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    • Item icon Uninsured or unidentified motor vehicles
      Claims for accidents that are the fault of unidentified or unregistered motor vehicles are made against the nominal defendant. For insurance purposes, SIRA is the nominal defendant, but in any proceedings, is named as the Nominal Defendant: s 2.27 of the MAIA.

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    • Folder icon General deeds, agreements, execution clauses, and statutory declarations
      • Item icon Deeds and Agreements
      • Folder icon Deeds
        • Item icon Deed for general use
        • Item icon Deed of guarantee
        • Item icon Deed of release
        • Item icon General deed of indemnity
        • Item icon Deed of assignment of agreement
        • Item icon Deed of gift
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of deed - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Agreements
        • Item icon Agreement for general use
        • Item icon Heads of agreement
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Formal
        • Item icon Non-disclosure agreement - Informal
        • Folder icon Library of standard clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Amendment
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for defined information - One party
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - All parties
          • Item icon Confidentiality for terms of agreement - One party
          • Item icon Costs
          • Item icon Counterparts
          • Item icon Dispute resolution
          • Item icon Events beyond control
          • Item icon Governing law and jurisdiction
          • Item icon Interpretation
          • Item icon No assignment
          • Item icon Notices
          • Item icon Severance
          • Item icon Waiver
          • Item icon Whole agreement
      • Folder icon Execution clauses
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for agreements
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
          • Item icon Individual - No witness
        • Folder icon Library of execution clauses for deeds
          • Item icon Attorney
          • Item icon Authorised officer
          • Item icon Company
          • Item icon Company - Sole director
          • Item icon Individual
      • Folder icon Statutory declarations
        • Item icon Commonwealth statutory declaration
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - ACT
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NSW
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - VIC
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - QLD
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - TAS
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - SA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - WA
        • Item icon Statutory declaration - blank - NT
        • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
      • Item icon Standard annexure note for documents
  • Folder icon B. Information gathering
    • Folder icon Client
      • Item icon Letter to client confirming initial actions with authorities to sign
      • Item icon Letter to client advising medical appointment
      • Item icon Letter to client for tax returns and identification
      • Item icon Letter to client enclosing authorities
      • Item icon Summary of medical expenses
    • Folder icon Ambulance
      • Item icon Authority for ambulance service records
      • Item icon Letter to ambulance service for reports with authority and fees
    • Folder icon Centrelink
      • Item icon Centrelink - Authority to release personal information - personal injury, insurance, superannuation or other matter
      • Item icon Letter to Centrelink with FOI form for details of benefits
      • Item icon Centrelink - Freedom of Information - request to access or change document(s)
    • Folder icon Doctor and specialist
      • Item icon Authority for medical records - General
      • Folder icon Doctor
        • Item icon Initial letter to treating doctor for report
        • Item icon Letter to doctor seeking time for payment
        • Item icon Irrevocable authority to pay doctor
        • Item icon Letter to treating doctor seeking report
        • Item icon Letter to other side serving expert report
        • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Folder icon Specialist
        • Item icon Letter to specialist doctor for report on permanent impairment
        • Item icon Letter to specialist doctor for report
        • Item icon Letter to other side serving expert report
        • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC4 – Expert Witness Evidence - PIC
    • Folder icon Employer
      • Item icon Authority to employer to provide loss of income details
      • Item icon Letter to employer for income details
      • Item icon Certificate of earnings
    • Folder icon Medicare
      • Item icon Letter to Medicare for details of payments with authority
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Medicare history statement request
      • Item icon Medicare Australia - Request for Medicare claims information
      • Item icon Medicare Australia - Request for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme claims information
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Third party authority (no bar code)
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Section 23A statement
    • Folder icon Police
      • Item icon Authority for police reports
      • Item icon Letter to police for report
    • Folder icon Transport for NSW
      • Item icon Request for Information by Solicitor - Motor vehicle accident claims
    • Folder icon ATO
      • Item icon Letter to ATO for information
  • Folder icon C. Statutory benefits
    • Item icon Available payments
      Medical, treatment, and care expenses Eligible claimants receive payment of their reasonable costs of treatment and care, plus reasonable and necessary travel expenses to attend medical appointments and other necessary treatment, arising from the accident: s 3.24.

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    • Item icon How and when to claim statutory benefits
      See How to claim personal injury benefits and Road map for personal injury benefits on the SIRA website. A claim for payment of statutory benefits must be commenced within 3 months of the accident by giving notice to the relevant insurer. Written notice of a claim is required via the standard ...

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    • Item icon Example content - Full and satisfactory explanation
    • Item icon Verification of the accident
      Section 6.8 of the MAIA requires that a motor accident be verified before a claimant is eligible for statutory benefits. Clause 4.11 of the MAG sets out the requirements to verify the motor accident, namely that:

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    • Item icon Insurer's response
      Section 6.19 of the MAIA provides that an insurer must, within 4 weeks after receiving a claim for statutory benefits, give the claimant notice whether or not the insurer accepts liability for the payment of statutory benefits during the first 52 weeks after the accident. This period ...

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    • Item icon When statutory benefits cease
      Payment of statutory benefits for treatment and care and for loss of income cease after 52 weeks from the date of the accident if:

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    • Item icon Threshold injury
      Threshold injury is defined in s 1.6 of the Motor Accident Injuries Act 2017 as a soft tissue injury or a psychological or psychiatric injury that is not a recognised psychiatric illness. If the claimant has an injury which is not a threshold injury, then they become entitled to:

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    • Item icon Restrictions on receipt of statutory benefits
      The definition of earner in clause 2 of Schedule 1 of the MAIA, effectively restricts those who will be eligible for weekly income benefits to people who can reasonably show they had some form of income at some point in the period up to 2 years before the accident, or had a definite ...

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    • Item icon Application for personal injury benefits
    • Item icon Application to compensate relatives
    • Item icon Application for funeral expenses
  • Folder icon D. Common law damages
    • Item icon Commencing a claim for damages
      A damages claim is commenced by:

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    • Item icon Insurer's response
      The insurer must give notice admitting or denying liability within 3 of when the claim is made in compliance with the MAG. Section 6.20 permits the insurer a period of up to 3 months to admit or deny liability for a damages claim otherwise the insurer is deemed to have denied liability.

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    • Item icon Determining damages
      Determinations made by an insurer or the Personal Injury Commission about fault and contributory negligence in relation to a claim for statutory benefits are not binding in relation to a claim for damages: s 3.44. A claim for damages can be referred to the Personal Injury Commission by the ...

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    • Item icon Economic loss
      The categories of economic loss for which damages may be awarded are set out in s 4.5:

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    • Item icon Attendant care and respite services
      The client may be able to prove a need for attendant care and respite care services. This is usually established by qualified expert evidence in the form of a report. No damages are payable for any treatment and care needs covered under the Lifetime Care and Support Scheme, including future ...

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    • Item icon Non-economic loss
      To obtain damages for non-economic loss, there must be agreement or certification that the client has suffered greater than 10% permanent impairment due to the subject accident: s 4.11 of the MAIA. The insurer should be asked in appropriate cases to concede that the 10% threshold has been ...

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    • Item icon Application for damages under common law
    • Item icon Letter to client on response by insurer to the claim
    • Folder icon If required - Insurer denies liability
      • Item icon Letter to client finalising matter following denial of liability
    • Item icon Letter to client re claim for domestic assistance
    • Item icon Authority to receive
  • Folder icon E. Dispute resolution
    • Item icon Personal Injury Commission (PIC)
      Established by the Personal Injury Commission Act 2020, the Motor Vehicle Accidents Division of the Commission is the dispute resolution venue for the motor accidents scheme. All types of disputes regarding claims are referred there – see Dispute resolution and the Personal Injury Commission.

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    • Item icon Internal reviews by the insurer
      The process for resolving disputes about any issue except the degree of permanent impairment where the claimant disagrees with a decision of the insurer is as follows

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    • Item icon Merit reviews by PIC
      If the claimant still disagrees with the insurer's decision after the internal review, the further dispute resolution process is as follows:

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    • Item icon Medical assessments by PIC
      A dispute about an insurer’s decision can be referred for medical assessment only if the insurer first reviewed the decision internally: see ss 7.19 and 7.20 of the MAIA and Part 11 of the Personal Injury Commission Rules. However, there is no requirement for an internal review for a ...

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    • Item icon PIC procedure
      The Commission’s website provides extensive information for practitioners. See particularly the Commission’s various Procedural Directions.

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    • Item icon Dispute pathways – Motor accidents disputes – 2017 scheme – PIC
    • Item icon Lodge a dispute - Applying online – PIC
    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC3 – Documents - PIC
    • Item icon Claims exempt from assessment
      Claims exempt from assessment by the Personal Injury Commission are set out in r 14 of the Motor Accident Injuries Regulations 2017:

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    • Item icon Schedule of earnings
      If the amount of weekly compensation is in dispute, a party must include a Schedule of Earnings in the approved form: r 68(1) of the Personal Injury Commission Rules 2021. If a party disputes this schedule, they must provide their own schedule in response: see Procedural Direction PIC5 – ...

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    • Item icon Procedural Direction PIC5 – Schedule of Earnings – PIC
    • Item icon Schedule of earnings – PIC
  • Folder icon F. Going to court - District Court - Less than $1,000,000
    • Item icon Going to court
      Court proceedings cannot be commenced without a certificate from the Personal Injury Commission under either s 7.34 for claims exempt from assessment, or s 7.36 for claims assessed. Once a certificate has been obtained, court proceedings can be brought in any court of competent ...

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    • Item icon Letter to client when commencing court proceedings
    • Item icon Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Example content - Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
    • Item icon Clause - Statement of claim - Motor accident injuries
    • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
    • Item icon Statement of particulars - Compensation to relatives
    • Item icon Letter to client with copy claim and timetable - District Court
    • Item icon Letter to defendant serving statement of claim and timetable - District Court
    • Folder icon Library of UCPR forms
      • Item icon Acknowledgement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Affidavit
      • Item icon Affidavit of debt
      • Item icon Affidavit of service
      • Item icon Appearance
      • Item icon Application to postpone, remit or waive payment of a court fee
      • Item icon Arbitrators award and registrars notice
      • Item icon Arrest warrant
      • Item icon Charging order
      • Item icon Consent judgment or consent order
      • Item icon Consent to act as tutor
      • Item icon Cross-summons
      • Item icon Defence
      • Item icon Defence - filing party acting in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Defence - No verification
      • Item icon Document in accordance with schedule 10 Rule 1.26 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
      • Item icon Election for trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Examination notice - Corporation
      • Item icon Examination notice - Individual
      • Item icon Examination order
      • Item icon Exhibit certificate
      • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Item icon Garnishee order for debts
      • Item icon Garnishee order for rent
      • Item icon Garnishee order for wages or salary
      • Item icon Garnishee's statement that no debt due or accruing or no wage or salary payable
      • Item icon General form
      • Item icon Indemnity Certificate
      • Item icon Instalment order and notice
      • Item icon Interrogatories
      • Item icon Judgment or order
      • Item icon List of documents
      • Item icon List of parties
      • Item icon Notice disputing facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of change of address for service
      • Item icon Notice of change of solicitor or appointment of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice of contention (Parts 49 or 50)
      • Item icon Notice of discontinuance
      • Item icon Notice of intention to elect trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Notice of intention to file notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of motion
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Arrest warrant for examination
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for detention of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for liquidated claim
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for unliquidated damages
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment on claim for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Examination order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Garnishee order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Objection to instalment order or order refusing instalment application
      • Item icon Notice of motion - rehearing after arbitration
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the delivery of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the levy of property
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Corporation
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Individual
      • Item icon Notice of payment
      • Item icon Notice of removal of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice to admit facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice to occupier
      • Item icon Notice to plead facts - Money claims
      • Item icon Notice to produce for inspection
      • Item icon Notice to produce to court
      • Item icon Order for production
      • Item icon Possession of land coversheet
      • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Corporation
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Individual
      • Item icon Reply
      • Item icon Registration or filing of certificate of judgment or order
      • Item icon Reply - No verification
      • Item icon Request for service abroad of judicial documents and certificate
      • Item icon Scott schedule
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of issues
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Statement of claim - No verification
      • Folder icon Statement of liquidated claim - for use with many invoices or payments
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification and no tables
        • Item icon Table of invoices table of interest for use in no table SOC
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No tables
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Compensation to relatives
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
      • Item icon Submitting Appearance
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence and to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Subpoena to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Summons
      • Item icon Summons (Judicial Review)
      • Item icon Timetable
      • Item icon Witness statement
      • Item icon Writ for levy of property
      • Item icon Writ of delivery
      • Item icon Writ of possession
      • Folder icon Adoption
        • Item icon Affidavit of service of notice of application for adoption order and-or consent dispense order
        • Item icon Affidavit of birth parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of intended parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of referee
        • Item icon Appearance
        • Item icon Order (adoption and approval of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Order (adoption and registration of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Summons for adoption
      • Folder icon Court of Appeal
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Notice of appeal
        • Item icon Notice of intention to appeal
        • Item icon Summons seeking leave to appeal
      • Folder icon Land and Environment Court
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Application - Classes 1, 2 or 3
        • Item icon Tree dispute claim details (damage to property or injury to a person)
      • Folder icon Probate / Letters of Administration
        • Item icon Acknowledgement under s83 of the Probate Act
        • Item icon Administration bond
        • Item icon Affidavit
        • Item icon Affidavit as to de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit confirming service of notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Affidavit that deceased was NOT in a de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit of additional assets and or liabilities
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for resealing
        • Item icon Affidavit of attesting witness
        • Item icon Affidavit of consent to distribution of a gift
        • Item icon Affidavit of executor
        • Item icon Affidavit of surety
        • Item icon Affidavit relating to domestic partnership
        • Item icon Annexure tear sheet
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Application to publish Notice of intended distribution of an estate
        • Item icon Application for exemplification
        • Item icon Breakdown and codes for grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Caveat
        • Item icon Consent of affected person
        • Item icon Consent to administration
        • Item icon Grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Deed of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Inventory of property
        • Item icon Notice of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of filing of accounts
        • Item icon Notice of intended application for administration where there may be a de facto spouse or domestic partner
        • Item icon Notice of intended distribution
        • Item icon Notice of intended objection to accounts and or commission
        • Item icon Notice of motion for order passing accounts and for commission
        • Item icon Notice of objection to appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Notice of withdrawal of caveat
        • Item icon Notice to affected persons
        • Item icon Notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Opt out notice
        • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
        • Item icon Renunciation in favour of NSW Trustee & Guardian
        • Item icon Renunciation of probate
        • Item icon Reseal
        • Item icon Summons for administration
        • Item icon Summons for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Summons for probate
        • Item icon Summons for reseal
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure with annexure or exhibit
    • Item icon Case management information for court appearances - MAIA
    • Item icon Plaintiff's schedule of damages
    • Item icon Schedule of medical reports
    • Item icon Letter to defendant's insurer serving their documents on them so they may be tendered
    • Item icon Letter requiring defendant's expert witness for cross-examination
    • Item icon Notice to produce to court
  • Folder icon G. Going to court - Supreme Court - More than $1,000,000
    • Item icon Going to court
      Court proceedings cannot be commenced without a certificate from the Personal Injury Commission under either s 7.34 for claims exempt from assessment, or s 7.36 for claims assessed. Once a certificate has been obtained, court proceedings can be brought in any court of competent ...

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    • Item icon Letter to client when commencing court proceedings
    • Item icon Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Example content - Brief to counsel - Injuries
    • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
    • Item icon Clause - Statement of claim - Motor accident injuries
    • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
    • Item icon Statement of particulars - Compensation to relatives
    • Folder icon Library of UCPR forms
      • Item icon Acknowledgement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Affidavit
      • Item icon Affidavit of debt
      • Item icon Affidavit of service
      • Item icon Appearance
      • Item icon Application to postpone, remit or waive payment of a court fee
      • Item icon Arbitrators award and registrars notice
      • Item icon Arrest warrant
      • Item icon Charging order
      • Item icon Consent judgment or consent order
      • Item icon Consent to act as tutor
      • Item icon Cross-summons
      • Item icon Defence
      • Item icon Defence - filing party acting in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Defence - No verification
      • Item icon Document in accordance with schedule 10 Rule 1.26 of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005
      • Item icon Election for trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Examination notice - Corporation
      • Item icon Examination notice - Individual
      • Item icon Examination order
      • Item icon Exhibit certificate
      • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
      • Item icon Garnishee order for debts
      • Item icon Garnishee order for rent
      • Item icon Garnishee order for wages or salary
      • Item icon Garnishee's statement that no debt due or accruing or no wage or salary payable
      • Item icon General form
      • Item icon Indemnity Certificate
      • Item icon Instalment order and notice
      • Item icon Interrogatories
      • Item icon Judgment or order
      • Item icon List of documents
      • Item icon List of parties
      • Item icon Notice disputing facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of change of address for service
      • Item icon Notice of change of solicitor or appointment of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice of contention (Parts 49 or 50)
      • Item icon Notice of discontinuance
      • Item icon Notice of intention to elect trial by jury in defamation proceedings
      • Item icon Notice of intention to file notice of ceasing to act
      • Item icon Notice of motion
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Arrest warrant for examination
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for detention of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for liquidated claim
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment for unliquidated damages
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Default judgment on claim for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Examination order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Garnishee order
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Objection to instalment order or order refusing instalment application
      • Item icon Notice of motion - rehearing after arbitration
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for possession of land
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the delivery of goods
      • Item icon Notice of motion - Writ for the levy of property
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Corporation
      • Item icon Notice of motion to pay by instalments - Individual
      • Item icon Notice of payment
      • Item icon Notice of removal of solicitor
      • Item icon Notice to admit facts and authenticity of documents
      • Item icon Notice to occupier
      • Item icon Notice to plead facts - Money claims
      • Item icon Notice to produce for inspection
      • Item icon Notice to produce to court
      • Item icon Order for production
      • Item icon Possession of land coversheet
      • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Corporation
      • Item icon Registrar's examination - Individual
      • Item icon Reply
      • Item icon Registration or filing of certificate of judgment or order
      • Item icon Reply - No verification
      • Item icon Request for service abroad of judicial documents and certificate
      • Item icon Scott schedule
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of issues
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party in person or by authorised officer
      • Item icon Statement of claim - filing party legally represented
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim
      • Item icon Statement of claim - No verification
      • Folder icon Statement of liquidated claim - for use with many invoices or payments
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification and no tables
        • Item icon Table of invoices table of interest for use in no table SOC
        • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No tables
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim
      • Item icon Statement of liquidated cross-claim - No verification
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Compensation to relatives
      • Item icon Statement of particulars - Personal injury proceedings
      • Item icon Submitting Appearance
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence
      • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence and to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Subpoena to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
      • Item icon Summons
      • Item icon Summons (Judicial Review)
      • Item icon Timetable
      • Item icon Witness statement
      • Item icon Writ for levy of property
      • Item icon Writ of delivery
      • Item icon Writ of possession
      • Folder icon Adoption
        • Item icon Affidavit of service of notice of application for adoption order and-or consent dispense order
        • Item icon Affidavit of birth parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of intended parent
        • Item icon Affidavit of referee
        • Item icon Appearance
        • Item icon Order (adoption and approval of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Order (adoption and registration of adoption plans)
        • Item icon Summons for adoption
      • Folder icon Court of Appeal
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Notice of appeal
        • Item icon Notice of intention to appeal
        • Item icon Summons seeking leave to appeal
      • Folder icon Land and Environment Court
        • Item icon General form
        • Item icon Application - Classes 1, 2 or 3
        • Item icon Tree dispute claim details (damage to property or injury to a person)
      • Folder icon Probate / Letters of Administration
        • Item icon Acknowledgement under s83 of the Probate Act
        • Item icon Administration bond
        • Item icon Affidavit
        • Item icon Affidavit as to de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit confirming service of notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Affidavit that deceased was NOT in a de facto relationship
        • Item icon Affidavit of additional assets and or liabilities
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Affidavit of applicant for resealing
        • Item icon Affidavit of attesting witness
        • Item icon Affidavit of consent to distribution of a gift
        • Item icon Affidavit of executor
        • Item icon Affidavit of surety
        • Item icon Affidavit relating to domestic partnership
        • Item icon Annexure tear sheet
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Answer to notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Application to publish Notice of intended distribution of an estate
        • Item icon Application for exemplification
        • Item icon Breakdown and codes for grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Caveat
        • Item icon Consent of affected person
        • Item icon Consent to administration
        • Item icon Grant of probate, letters of administration or letters of administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Deed of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Inventory of property
        • Item icon Notice of appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of filing of accounts
        • Item icon Notice of intended application for administration where there may be a de facto spouse or domestic partner
        • Item icon Notice of intended distribution
        • Item icon Notice of intended objection to accounts and or commission
        • Item icon Notice of motion for order passing accounts and for commission
        • Item icon Notice of objection to appointment of executor or administrator
        • Item icon Notice of proceedings
        • Item icon Notice of withdrawal of caveat
        • Item icon Notice to affected persons
        • Item icon Notice to apply for administration
        • Item icon Notice to apply for probate
        • Item icon Opt out notice
        • Item icon Plaintiff's affidavit used in family provision matters - Practice note no. SC Eq 7
        • Item icon Renunciation in favour of NSW Trustee & Guardian
        • Item icon Renunciation of probate
        • Item icon Reseal
        • Item icon Summons for administration
        • Item icon Summons for administration with the will annexed
        • Item icon Summons for probate
        • Item icon Summons for reseal
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure
    • Item icon Clause - Generative AI disclosure with annexure or exhibit
    • Item icon Case management information for court appearances - MAIA
    • Item icon General form
    • Item icon Letter to client with copy claim and documents - Supreme Court
    • Item icon Letter to defendant serving statement of claim and documents - Supreme Court
    • Item icon Plaintiff's schedule of damages
    • Item icon Schedule of medical reports
    • Item icon Letter to defendant's insurer serving their documents on them so they may be tendered
    • Item icon Letter requiring defendant's expert witness for cross-examination
    • Item icon Notice to witness on interstate service of subpoena - Supreme Court
    • Item icon Notice to produce to court
  • Folder icon H. Hearing
    • Item icon Letter to client advising hearing date
    • Item icon Letter to witness with arrangements for attendance at hearing
    • Item icon Letter to doctor seeking update report for hearing
    • Item icon Expert witness code of conduct
    • Item icon Subpoena to produce with subpoena notice and declaration
    • Item icon Letter to defendant enclosing subpoena to third party
    • Item icon Subpoena to attend to give evidence
    • Item icon Letter serving subpoena to produce
    • Item icon Letter to doctor with subpoena
    • Item icon Letter to police officer with subpoena to attend at hearing
  • Folder icon I. Resolving claims
    • Item icon Dispute pathways – Motor accidents disputes – 2017 scheme – PIC
    • Item icon Deductions and preclusions
      Before seeking instructions to settle or to proceed to an assessment of the claim, it is very important to obtain a full and detailed summary of all amounts that are likely to be deducted from any sum payable to the claimant. This may include:

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    • Item icon Letter to client with Medicare authority
    • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Medicare history statement request
    • Item icon Letter to client to complete Medicare and electronic funds transfer forms
    • Item icon Summary of medical expenses
    • Item icon Resolving claims
      Deductions and preclusions Before seeking instructions to settle or to proceed to an assessment of the claim, it is very important to obtain a full and detailed summary of all amounts that are likely to be deducted from any sum payable to the claimant. This may include:

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    • Item icon Plaintiff's schedule of damages
  • Folder icon J. Finalising the matter
    • Folder icon If required - Not proceeding
      • Item icon Letter to client when not proceeding after retainer
      • Item icon Letter to client not proceeding before retainer
    • Folder icon If required - Medicare and Centrelink
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Notice of judgment or settlement
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Section 23A statement
      • Item icon Medicare compensation recovery - Bank account details collection (no bar code)
      • Item icon Centrelink - Compensation advice of lump sum payments
    • Item icon Letter to client finalising the matter - Payment of statutory benefits where no claim for damages
    • Item icon Authority to receive
    • Item icon Example invoice incorporating notification of client's rights - NSW
    • Item icon Invoice recital - Injuries, works compensation, victims support
    • Item icon Closing the file
    • Item icon File closing checklist
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