Changes to Federal Circuit Court forms take effect today
02/11/2017
Practice and procedure
Included in the recent rule amendments contained in the Federal Circuit Court Amendment (Costs and Other Measures) Rules 2017 was an amendment to extend the time a response must be filed and served from 14 days to 28 days of service of the application to which it relates. This amendment commences on 2 November 2017 and applies to applications made after the commencement. As a consequence of this amendment changes have been made to these forms:
- Human Rights: application and response
- General Federal Law: application and response
- Migration: application
- Fair Work Division: application
- Family law: initiating application
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