A portable handbook for civil litigation in New South Wales. NSW Civil Procedure Handbook 2020 provides practitioners with essential procedural and evidence legislation and annotations in a single volume. Whether you are on your feet in court or meeting with clients and counsel, you are guided to the content you need by features such as thumb tabs, rich tables of contents and cases, shading on annotations, detailed page headings and subject index.
This volume takes selected legislation and commentary from Thomson Reuters' NSW Civil Practice and Procedure Suite which, under the guidance of The Hon John P Hamilton QC, The Hon Justice Geoff Lindsay, Magistrate Michael Morahan (Acting) and Carol Webster SC, specifically addresses the requirements for practice within the uniform rules framework. Legislation is current as at 25 March 2020 To help practitioners stay up-to-date, Thomson Reuters provides free emails describing legislation and rule changes - look inside for registration details. AMENDMENTS IN THIS EDITION NSW Civil Procedure Handbook 2020 takes account of the amendments listed below. Civil Procedure Act 2005 - Property, Stock and Business Agents Amendment (Property Industry Reform) Act 2018 - Act 5 of 2018 Civil Procedure Regulation 2017 - Civil Procedure Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2019 - Reg 327 of 2019 District Court Act 1973 [Extracts] - Government Sector Finance Legislation (Repeal and Amendment) Act 2018 - Act 70 of 2018 Evidence Act 1995 - Children's Guardian Act 2019 - Act 25 of 2019 Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Act 1998 - COVID-19 Legislation Amendment (Emergency Measures) Act 2020 - Act 1 of 2020 Supreme Court Rules 1970 - Supreme Court (Amendment No 432) Rule 2020 - Rule 95 of 2020 Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999 - Supreme Court (Corporations) Amendment (No 14) Rules 2019 - Rule 161 of 2019 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 - Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 89) Rule 2019 - Rule 162 of 2019 - Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 90) Rule 2019 - Rule 163 of 2019 - Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 91) Rule 2019 - Rule 171 of 2019 - Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 92) Rule 2019 - Rule 534 of 2019 CONTENTS Civil Procedure Act 2005 - annotated Civil Procedure Regulation 2017 Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 - annotated Evidence Act 1995 Evidence Regulation 2015 Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Act 1998 Evidence (Audio and Audio Visual Links) Regulation 2015 Evidence on Commission Act 1995 Supreme Court Act 1970 - annotated extracts Supreme Court Rules 1970 (except Sch F-G1) - annotated Supreme Court (Corporations) Rules 1999 (except Sch 1) Supreme Court Practice Notes District Court Act 1973 - annotated extracts District Court Rules 1973 - annotated District Court Practice Notes Local Court Act 2007- annotated extracts Local Courts Rules 2009 Local Court Practice Notes Index
