Welcome to our latest legal content update. In the last month we’ve built you some new matter types and updated layouts, continued to update our forms and precedents, and made some important updates to the Stamp Duty Calculator in QLD. Let’s dive in to the highlights below or read the full release notes here.
Comcare Matter Type
A new “Comcare” matter type is now available in the existing Personal Injury category for all States. This is similar to the State-based Workers Compensation matters. Please let us know if you have any feedback on this new matter type below!
QLD First Home Owner Grant
The QLD First Home Owner Grant in the Stamp Duty Calculator in Conveyancing Purchase and Transfer matter types has been updated. Feel free to refer to this support article for more info and reach out to our Support team if you have any questions.
Select Second Respondent in your Family Matters
Following client feedback, we were excited this month to release changes to several Family Law matter types by giving you the ability to select whether a Client or Other Side is the “Second Respondent.” This is available in your Children, Property, and Children and Property matters. For these matters, you have the option of selecting the other Respondent as “First Respondent” as well. We have updated the FCFCOA forms to accommodate these changes.
Worker’s Compensation (NSW) Update
This month we updated the Workers Compensation matter type in NSW to give you the ability to act for the Employer or Insurer when you open a new matter, not just the Claimant.
Marketplace Precedents
This month also saw some more updates to our Marketplace Precedents.
For our FLENA subscribers, several precedents have been amended with the addition of sections referring to the upcoming Family Law changes in May.
A new precedent called “SP1 - Letter to client regarding Family Law Amendment Act 2023” is also now available and the following precedents have been updated:
- 1. Initial Letter to Client on Retention;
- 2. Initial Formal Letter to Client regarding Children and or Property; and
- 6. Property Division Letter of Advice.
The following suites have also been updated for our Lexon Insurance subscribers following updates from the Author:
- Conveyancing NSW > Purchase; and
- Conveyancing NSW > Sale.
Forms Updates
Several Courts and authorities made important updates to their forms this month which we has kept up busy making sure those updates are available in the Precedent library for our clients.
All States
This month the Client Authorisation Representative forms were updated, including:
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Client Authorisation Representative (PDF)
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Client Authorisation Representative - Company (Word)
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Client Authorisation Representative - Up to 2 Clients (PDF)
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Client Authorisation Representative - Up to 2 Clients (Word)
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Client Authorisation Representative - Up to 4 Clients (Word)
South Australia
In SA, the Advance Care Directive and the Cancelling my Advance Care Directive forms were updated by SA Health.
Victoria
This month the County Court of VIC updated over 20 of their commonly used forms, including the Summons, Subpoena, Defence and Notice of Appearance Forms. These changes primarily were not to the substantive part of the forms, and mainly included addition of the Solicitor's “Mobile Number” and removal of the “DX” field.
That’s all for now, but stay tuned for next month’s update and join our Australian Updates & News Lounge to be the first to know about what’s new for Australian firms. For a complete list of all of this month’s updates, you can read the full release notes for all the details.
As always we welcome your questions and requests in the replies below.