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Practice Note 1 of 2000Legal Costs
Practice Note 1 of 2001Vacating hearing dates and applications for adjournment
Practice Note 1 of 2001 AttachmentForm 1
Practice Note 4 of 2001Case management of civil actions (transitional provisions)
Practice Note 5 - 2002Magistrates Early Referral Into Treatment (MERIT) programme
Practice Note 6 - 2002Procedures to be adopted in Committal hearings (see also 9/03 and 5/05)
Practice Note 6 AttachmentForm - Agreement for a S48E direction
Practice Note 7 - 2002Committals for trial involving co-defendants
Practice Note 9 - 2003 Updated 20 November 2006Procedures to be adopted in committal hearings after 7 July 2003
Practice Note 9 AttachmentForm - Agreement for direction that witness attend to give oral evidence at committal
Practice Note 10 of 2003 Updated 20 November 2006Representations for withdrawal and time standards for matters being dealt with summarily
Practice Note 11 of 2003Representations for withdrawal and time standards for matters being dealt with upon indictment
Practice Note 1 of 2004 Form of address in Court
Practice Note 2 of 2004Listing procedure for summary criminal trials
Practice Note 2 of 2004 Local Court Listing AdviceForm - Local Court Listing Advice
Practice Note 2 of 2004 Notice of AppearanceForm - Notice of Appearance in summary criminal trials
Practice Note 3 of 2004Criminal proceedings involving child witnesses
Practice Note 1 of 2005 Updated 16 February 2007Case management of civil proceedings (General Division)
Amended General Division Standard Directions applicable from 21 October 2005
Practice Note 2 of 2005Case management of proceedings in the Small Claims Division
Practice Note 3 of 2005Community Conferencing for Young Adults Pilot (CCYAP) programme
Practice Note 4 of 2005Media access to sexual assault proceedings heard in camera
Practice Note 5 of 2005Procedures to be adopted for committal hearings for proceedings commenced on or after 1 January 2006
Practice Note Chief Industrial Magistrate's Court 1 of 2005Listing procedure for Workcover and other summary prosecutions in the CIM court commenced on or after 1 July 2005
Notice of Appearance Chief Industrial Magistrate's CourtForm - Notice of appearance CIM
Local Court Listing Advice Chief Industrial Magistrate's CourtForm - CIM Listing advice
Practice Note 1 of 2006 - Reissued 29 August 2008Procedures to be adopted by the DVICM at Campbelltown & Wagga Wagga Local Courts
Practice Note 1 of 2007Criminal Case Processing
Practice Note 2 of 2007 Amendment to commence 1 June 2008Limitation on amount of costs to be awarded (s15, Civil Procedure Act 2005)
Practice Note 3 of 2007Conduct of hearing- General Division (s62, Civil Procedure Act 2005)
Practice Note 4 of 2007Provision of Psychiatric Reports to Correctional Facilities
Practice Note 5 of 2007 Procedures for persons in custody at Courts / Circuits with no AVL facilities
Practice Note 6 of 2007 General Division - Quantum of Damages (Motor Vehicle Accidents)
Practice Note 7 of 2007 Listing Procedure for Summary Criminal Trials
Practice Note 1 of 2008Identity theft prevention and anonymisation policy
Practice Note 2 of 2008 Tape Recording of Court Proceedings
Practice Note 3 of 2008 - Amended 29 August 2008Procedures to be adopted for Domestic Violence Court Intervention Model at Sutherland, Nowra/Milton, Penrith, Blacktown, Mt Druitt, Albury, Taree/Forster/Gloucester, Wyong, Bateman’s Bay/Bega, Wollongong, Port Kembla, Gosford, Lismore, Liverpool, Fairfield, Parramatta, Ryde, Manly, Camden, Burwood Local Courts
Practice Note 4 of 2008 - Amended 9 May 2008Procedures to be adopted for Committal hearings in the Local Court for proceedings commenced on or after 1 May 2008
Practice Note 5 of 2008Forum Sentencing Programme (Additional sentencing option for Liverpool and Tweed Heads Local Courts)

The Court’s time standards

The Court aims to finalise its caseload in accordance with the following Time Standards;

Local Court Criminal Time Standards
95% of summary criminal trials - within 6 months.
100% of summary criminal trials - within 12 months
95% of criminal cases where the defendant enters a plea of guilty - within 3 months.
100% of criminal cases where the defendant enters a plea of guilty - within 6 months.
90% of indictable matters discharged or committed for trial or sentence to the Supreme or District Court - within 6 months.
100% of indictable matters discharged or committed for trial or sentence to the Supreme or District Court - within 12 months.
95% of complaint summonses - within 3months.
100% of complaint summonses - within 6 months.

Local Court Civil Time Standards
90% of civil cases - within 6 months of the initiation of the proceedings in the Court.
100% of cases - within 12 months of the initiation of proceedings in the Court.

Children’s Court Criminal Time Standards
80% of all summary criminal trials - within 6 months and 100% - within 12 months.
90% of all sentence matters following a plea of guilty - within 3 months of commencement and 100% - within 6 months.
90% of committals for trial - within 9 months and 100% - within 12 months.
95% of applications - within 6 months and 100% - within 9 months.

Children’s Court Care Time Standards
90% of Care matters - within 9 months.
100% of Care matters - within 12 months.

Coroner’s Time Standards
95% of deaths by natural causes, (no brief of evidence ordered), - within 3 months.
100% of deaths by natural causes, (no brief of evidence ordered), - within 6 months.
95% of deaths dispensed with (a brief of evidence ordered) - within 6 months.
100% of deaths dispensed with (a brief of evidence ordered) - within 9 months.
95% of deaths proceeding to inquest - within 12 months.
100% of deaths proceeding to inquest - within 18 months.

Chief Industrial Magistrate’s Time Standards
95% of prosecutions - within 6 months.
100% of prosecutions - within 12 months.







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