Court of Appeal practice

The following Uniform Civil forms are approved for use in the Court of Appeal and may be downloaded from the Civil Forms webpage.

Parties to a hearing or proceedings before the Court of Appeal are required, in accordance with para 46 to 48 of Practice Note No. SC CA 1, to lodge four copies of a list of authorities no later than 24 hours before the hearing.

The list of authorities must include the following:

1. reference to any Commonwealth or New South Wales statutes, identifying the relevant reprint or date;
2. in relation to other jurisdictions, annexing copies of the relevant legislation;
3. cases from which passages will be read in the course of argument;
4. cases to be cited but not read, and
5. The provider of the list of authorities must place his or her name and contact details including email and telephone number at the foot of the list of authorities.

The Decisions of Interest Bulletin is compiled once per fortnight.  It contains summaries of recent decisions of the New South Wales Court of Appeal, other Australian intermediate appellate courts, Asia Pacific appellate courts and other international appellate courts, with the aim of collecting and promoting awareness and accessibility of particularly significant recent decisions.