--- title: "Costs assessment Form A3: ordered party and party costs" url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/form-nsw-costs-assessment-a3-ordered" type: "precedent" site: "AI Law Framework" id: "a42-form-nsw-costs-assessment-a3-ordered" area_id: "A42" kind: "form" ai_level: "red" version: 1 task_ids: ["A42-PE20261022-22"] law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-23" --- # Costs assessment Form A3: ordered party and party costs > Link to Supreme Court Form A3 for assessment of costs payable under a court or tribunal order, including a personal injury, motor accident, dust disease or workers compensation order. Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/form-nsw-costs-assessment-a3-ordered Law stated as at: 2026-10-23 Site index for agents: https://ailawframework.com/llms.txt ## Key facts - Kind: Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one. - Practice area: [Costs, billing & litigation funding](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md) - Jurisdictions: New South Wales - AI level: Red. You write the text. The tool writes nothing into the document. Where permitted, it may check, clarify or collect data, and anything it checks or collects is verified. - Law stated as at: 2026-10-23 - Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-23 against the official form at supremecourt.nsw.gov.au and the 2 authorities it cites, for New South Wales. ## When to use it Use when ordered costs in a NSW personal injury matter are to be assessed, whether the costs are payable to the plaintiff or by the plaintiff. Download the current form. Commonwealth, Family Court, Federal Court and High Court costs orders are outside this form, on the form's own note. ## Used for these tasks - [Record the GST treatment of a costs claim from the input-tax-credit status](https://ailawframework.com/obligations/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding.md#A42-PE20261022-22) ## How AI may be used The tool may list the orders and amounts already on the file against the form, and it writes nothing in the certification or the authority to inspect the file. **AI may:** - List each costs order on the file with its court, file number, parties and date, for the lawyer to check - Note whether the draft records the date a copy and any required notice were sent - Index the orders, the interest order, the itemised costs document and the attachment index **AI must not:** - Must not write or sign section C, the mediation certification, or the authority to inspect documents - Must not decide whether a rule makes costs payable without an order, or draft the notice the form refers to - Must not lodge the form or treat a Commonwealth, Family Court, Federal Court or High Court costs order as assessable on this form - Must not describe the Form A3 information sheet **The lawyer checks:** - The form in use is the current file from the costs assessment forms page, last updated 6 August 2026 when opened on 23 October 2026. The information sheet was not opened - The cover sheet box matches the matter. The form's note says ordered costs from Commonwealth courts are not generally assessed under NSW legal profession legislation, and it points Family Law, Federal Court, Federal Circuit Court and High Court costs orders to those courts' rules - Each order is listed and a copy is attached. A rule is listed only where the form's note allows it: costs payable without an order, and the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014 applies. The form says that if the Legal Profession Act 2004 applies, an order is always required - A copy of the application, and the notice named on the form, have been sent. The form says that if the notice answer is no, the application will not proceed until the notice requirement has been complied with - Interest is claimed only where an order provides for it, with the calculation and the continuing rate stated, and a copy of the order attached - The separate document numbers the work and disbursements and states who did the work, when, the basis of charge, and the facts relied on. The form says that where costs are payable by the applicant, that information is supplied by the costs respondent - The costs applicant or the applicant's legal practitioner signs section C - Health and other personal information stays in a firm-controlled tool. Check confidentiality under ASCR r 9 and APP 11, and whether any breach is notifiable under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). ## Authorities - [Supreme Court of New South Wales, Form A3, Application for assessment of ordered costs](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/supreme-court/documents/Forms-and-Fees/Costs-Assessment-Forms/A3_Form.docx) - [Supreme Court of New South Wales, Costs assessment forms and fees (page last updated 6 August 2026)](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/practice-procedure/costs/forms-fees.html) ## Official form [Official form](https://supremecourt.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/dcj/ctsd/supreme-court/documents/Forms-and-Fees/Costs-Assessment-Forms/A3_Form.docx) ## Where this comes from The official form is published by supremecourt.nsw.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-23. ## Full text and drafting notes The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/costs-billing-and-litigation-funding/form-nsw-costs-assessment-a3-ordered and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm. *Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*