Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

HIGH COURT RULES 2004

- made under the Judiciary Act 1903, Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, Nauru (High Court Appeals) Act 1976 and High Court of Australia Act 1979

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

            

CHAPTER 1--General rules
            

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.01.   Title [see Note 1]  
   1.02.   Object  
   1.03.   Commencement, repeal and transition  
   1.04.   Causes removed into the Court  
   1.05.   Proceedings remitted by the Court  
   1.06.   Interpretation  
   1.07.   Filing documents  
   1.08.   Documents  
   1.09.   Forms  

   PART 2--APPLICATION AND COMPLIANCE WITH THESE RULES

   2.01.   Application of these Rules  
   2.02.   Dispensing with compliance  
   2.03.   Failure to comply  

   PART 3--AMENDMENT

   3.01.   Amendment  

   PART 4--TIME, RECESSES AND THE REGISTRY

   4.01.   Time  
   4.02.   Enlargement and abridgment of time  
   4.03.   Delays  
   4.04.   Recesses  
   4.05.   Registry  
   4.06.   Use of Seals and Stamps  
   4.07.   Custody and inspection of documents in the Registry  

   PART 5--JUDICIARY ACT 1903 --SECTION 78B NOTICE

   5.01.   Filing notice  
   5.02.   Serving notice  
   5.03.   Affidavit of service and provision of documents  

   PART 6--GENERAL RULES

   6.01.   Cases not provided for by Rules  
   6.02.   Solicitors  
   6.03.   Publication of written reasons for judgment  
   6.04.   Sittings  
   6.05.   Scandalous matter  
   6.06.   Vexatious proceedings  
   6.07.   Refusal to issue or file a document  

   PART 7--OFFICERS

   7.01.   The Marshal  
   7.02.   Registrars  

   PART 8--JUDGMENT AND ORDERS

   8.01.   Form of judgments and orders  
   8.02.   Effective date  
   8.03.   Preparation  
   8.04.   Consent orders  
   8.05.   Judgment or orders to do an act  
   8.06.   Interest on judgments and costs  
   8.07.   Stay, bail, preservation of property and other interlocutory orders  

   PART 9--SERVICE OF PROCESS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

   9.01.   Manner of service  
   9.02.   Effecting personal service  
   9.03.   Effecting service on particular defendants  
   9.04.   Ordinary service  
   9.05.   Address for service  
   9.06.   Change of address for service  
   9.07.   Service out of Australia  

   PART 10--EXECUTION

   10.01.  Execution by parties and others  
   10.02.  Enforcement  

   PART 11--CONTEMPT OF COURT

   11.01.  Contempt in the face of the Court  
   11.02.  Other cases  
   11.03.  Warrant  
   11.04.  Punishment  
   11.05.  Costs  

   PART 12--MONEYS IN COURT

   12.01.  Interpretation  
   12.02.  Moneys paid into Court  
   12.03.  Moneys in Court  
            

CHAPTER 2--Proceedings in the original jurisdiction of the Court
            

   PART 20--COMMENCING PROCEEDINGS

   20.01.  Form of initiating process  
   20.02.  Issue of initiating process  

   PART 21--PARTIES

   21.01.  Joinder of parties  
   21.02.  Joinder of claims  
   21.03.  Joinder inconvenient  
   21.04.  Misjoinder and non-joinder  
   21.05.  Addition, removal and substitution of party  
   21.06.  Death of a party  
   21.07.  Transmission of interest or liability  
   21.08.  Persons under disability  
   21.09.  Representative proceedings  

   PART 22--SERVICE

   22.01.  Service of initiating process  
   22.02.  Affidavit of service  

   PART 23--APPEARANCE

   23.01.  Appearance before taking a step  
   23.02.  Submitting appearance  
   23.03.  Conditional appearance  
   23.04.  Service of notice of appearance  

   PART 24--EVIDENCE

   24.01.  Evidence by affidavit  
   24.02.  Subpoenas  

   PART 25--MANDAMUS, PROHIBITION, CERTIORARI, HABEAS CORPUS AND QUO WARRANTO

   25.01.  Form of an application for an order to show cause  
   25.02.  Parties to an application for an order to show cause  
   25.03.  Application on notice  
   25.04.  Relief and grounds  
   25.05.  Stay  
   25.06.  Certiorari  
   25.07.  Mandamus  
   25.08.  Form, service and return of writ of mandamus  
   25.09.  Habeas corpus  
   25.10.  Service of a writ of habeas corpus or order for production  
   25.11.  Return to a writ of habeas corpus  
   25.12.  Proceedings on return  
   25.13.  Discharge without writ  
   25.14.  Application for an information of quo warranto  
   25.15.  Form of information  
   25.16.  Service of information  
   25.17.  Subsequent proceedings  
   25.18.  Disclaimer  
   25.19.  Judgment  
   25.20.  Writ of Prohibition  

   PART 26--APPLICATIONS FOR REMOVAL PURSUANT TO SECTION 40 OF THE

   26.01.  Form of application for removal  
   26.02.  Affidavits in support  
   26.03.  Summary of argument -- applicant  
   26.04.  Summary of argument -- respondent  
   26.05.  Application book and subsequent proceedings  

   PART 27--WRIT OF SUMMONS

   27.01.  Form of Writ of Summons  
   27.02.  Form of pleadings  
   27.03.  Filing and serving a Statement of Claim  
   27.04.  Contents of a Statement of Claim  
   27.05.  Pleadings after a Statement of Claim  
   27.06.  Summons for directions  
   27.07.  Demurrer  
   27.08.  Questions of law  
   27.09.  Summary disposition  
   27.10.  Discontinuance and withdrawal  

   PART 28--INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATIONS

   28.01.  Interlocutory applications  
   28.02.  Form and service of interlocutory application  
   28.03.  Failure to attend  
            

CHAPTER 3--Election petitions
            

   PART 30--COMMENCING PROCEEDINGS

   30.01.  Form of petition  
   30.02.  Publication and advertisement  
   30.03.  Address for service  
   30.04.  Service of petition  

   PART 31--APPEARANCES AND PARTIES

   31.01.  Appearances  
   31.02.  Parties  

   PART 32--SUBSEQUENT PROCEEDINGS

   32.01.  Summons for directions  
   32.02.  Counter charges  
   32.03.  Particulars  
   32.04.  Notice of trial  
   32.05.  Withdrawal of petition and substitution of another petitioner  
            

CHAPTER 4--Proceedings in the appellate jurisdiction of the Court
            

   PART 40--INTERPRETATION AND APPLICATION OF CHAPTER 2

   40.01.  Interpretation  
   40.02.  Application of Chapter 2  

   PART 41--APPLICATIONS FOR LEAVE OR SPECIAL LEAVE TO APPEAL

   41.01.  Initiation of application for leave or special leave to appeal  
   41.02.  Time for filing application  
   41.03.  Service  
   41.04.  Appearance  
   41.05.  Summary of argument -- applicant  
   41.06.  Summary of argument -- respondent  
   41.07.  Summary of argument -- general  
   41.08.  Reply  
   41.09.  Application book  
   41.10.  Unrepresented applicants  
   41.11.  Oral argument  
   41.12.  Discontinuance of application  
   41.13.  Deemed abandonment of application by delay  
   41.14.  Directions by Registrar  
   41.15.  Determination of application  

   PART 42--APPEALS

   42.01.  Institution of appeals  
   42.02.  Form of notice of appeal  
   42.03.  Time for filing  
   42.04.  Place for filing  
   42.05.  Service  
   42.06.  Appearance  
   42.07.  Change of parties to an appeal  
   42.08.  Cross-appeal  
   42.09.  Stay of proceedings  
   42.10.  Documents  
   42.11.  Preparation of index  
   42.12.  Settling the index  
   42.13.  Preparation and filing of appeal books  
   42.14.  Discontinuance of appeal  
   42.15.  Directions by Registrar  
   42.16.  Dismissal for want of prosecution  
   42.17.  Appeal without notice  

   PART 43--APPLICATIONS AND APPEALS FROM THE SUPREME COURT OF NAURU

   43.01.  Application  
   43.02.  Appeals  
   43.03.  Applications  
            

CHAPTER 5--Costs
            

   PART 50--GENERAL

   50.01.  Costs in the discretion of the Court  
   50.02.  Methods of assessment  
   50.03.  Causes removed  
   50.04.  Order for proportion of costs  
   50.05.  Default by practitioners  

   PART 51--COSTS OF INTERLOCUTORY APPLICATIONS

   51.01.  Costs reserved  
   51.02.  Costs of applications in a matter  
   51.03.  Interlocutory costs included in final judgment  

   PART 52--SCALE OF COSTS

   52.01.  Fixed costs  
   52.02.  Costs other than fixed costs  

   PART 53--TAXING OFFICERS

   53.01.  Interpretation  
   53.02.  Taxation by Taxing Officer  
   53.03.  Taxing Officers to assist each other  
   53.04.  Powers of a Taxing Officer  
   53.05.  Attendance of parties  

   PART 54--COMMENCING TAXATION OF COSTS AND CONTENT OF BILL

   54.01.  Commencing taxation  
   54.02.  Content of bill  

   PART 55--TAXATION OF COSTS --GENERAL

   55.01.  General principle  
   55.02.  Special allowances  
   55.03.  No fee prescribed  
   55.04.  Duplication of fees  
   55.05.  Fees not provided for  

   PART 56--TAXATION OF COSTS --PARTICULAR ITEMS

   56.01.  Instructions  
   56.02.  Pleadings  
   56.03.  Evidence  
   56.04.  Evidence by affidavit  
   56.05.  Copies  
   56.06.  Perusal and inspection  
   56.07.  Agency matters  
   56.08.  Orders  
   56.09.  Counsel  
   56.10.  Experts  
   56.11.  Costs of particular parties  
   56.12.  Disallowance of unnecessary costs  
   56.13.  Costs of application for extension of time  

   PART 57--ASSESSMENT, TAXATION AND REVIEW OF TAXATION

   57.01.  Assessment  
   57.02.  Objections to bill  
   57.03.  Reconsideration of taxation  
   57.04.  Certificate and taxing fee  
   57.05.  Review of taxation  

   PART 58--COSTS OF TAXATION

   58.01.  Costs of preparing and taxing bill  
   58.02.  Costs and the Taxing Officer's estimate  
   58.03.  Reduction by one-sixth  
   58.04.  Amount allowed less than amount offered  

   PART 59--SECURITY FOR COSTS

   59.01.  Security for costs  
   59.02.  Giving security  
   59.03.  Failure to give security  
   59.04.  Variation of order for security  
           SCHEDULE 1 Forms
           SCHEDULE 2 Schedule of fees for work done or services performed