Build the agenda for a New South Wales directions date and status conference
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Key facts
- Human involvement
- YellowClose supervision
- How AI is used
- From the commencement date and the orders, list the directions date, the five-working-day email, the pre-trial conference and the status conference. The tool does not write the orders.
- What the lawyer must review
- The lawyer writes the proposed orders and signs those that are agreed.
- Email Supreme Court orders in Word, five working days before the directions date.
- In the District Court, serve proposed consent orders with the statement of claim.
- Do not apply Practice Note SC CL 1 to the professional negligence or institutional abuse list.
Rules that apply
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The work product
Forum. Supreme Court General Civil List under Practice Note SC CL 1, or the District Court General List under Practice Note 16
Produce. A listing agenda. The lawyer writes the proposed orders.
Have ready. The commencement date; The court; The current proposed orders.
Example of the limit. Illustrative example: The directions date is in four working days and no Word orders have been emailed. The agenda marks that deadline. The lawyer writes the orders.
Stop and hand it back when
- The proceeding is on a list excluded by Practice Note SC CL 1.
- The tool is asked to sign the orders.
Sources for this task were checked on 2026-10-23.
Who does what
| Role | What they do |
|---|---|
| Assistance | From the commencement date and the orders, list the directions date, the five-working-day email, the pre-trial conference and the status conference. The tool does not write the orders. |
| Lawyer | Set the scope, supervise the work closely, verify every part relied on, resolve omissions and exceptions, and approve the exact output. |
Checklist
- Practice Note SC CL 1 gives a General Civil List statement of claim commenced on or after 10 September 2026 a directions date three months from commencement. By then the statement of claim should have been served and any defence filed. An existing matter, filed before that day, is not given that date. A proceeding that may go to default judgment is not given a directions date on filing.
- Five working days before, email proposed orders in Word to the Common Law Registrar, with a note of no more than one page. Send orders that are not agreed as well.
- At the first judicial case-management review, each party must be ready to take a hearing date. Directions may cover evidence, a single expert, interrogatories, a view and alternative dispute resolution.
- District Court Practice Note 16 holds the pre-trial conference two months after commencement. At the status conference the case takes a hearing date. Paragraph 38 requires that hearing date to fall between 8 and 11 months from commencement, except where the case cannot for good reason be heard within 12 months.
Sources
- Supreme Court of NSW, Practice Note SC CL 1 · 2026-10-23
- District Court of NSW, Civil Practice Note 16 · 2026-10-23
- Supreme Court of NSW, Practice Note SC GEN 23 · 2026-10-23
Supreme Court Practice Note SC GEN 23, commenced on 3 February 2025, prohibits generative AI from generating evidentiary content, and requires prior leave before it is used to draft an expert report.
SC GEN 23 allows a chronology, an index or a witness list. No District Court generative AI practice note was opened. Practice Note 16 governs the General List.