Letter · Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation
Letter asking for more time to make submissions on a complaint (Uniform Law s 280)
A short letter asking the designated local regulatory authority to extend the period for a lawyer's submissions on a complaint, before that period ends.
- Kind
- Letter. A letter or email you adapt and send.
- Where it applies
- New South Wales, Victoria
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the authority it cites, for New South Wales and Victoria.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use when a lawyer has been notified of a complaint or of a decision to investigate, the period for submissions under s 279 is still running, and more time is needed to get documents or instructions. Send it before the period ends. It is not the submissions.
Used for these tasks
- Prepare a practitioner's response to a complaint or show cause notice
- Build the complaint, investigation and deadline register for a practitioner
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may put the reference, the specified date and a list of missing documents into this letter; the lawyer checks every sentence and decides whether to ask.
AI may
- Insert the authority's reference, the date of the notice and the date the specified period ends
- List documents the file shows have been requested and not yet received
AI must not
- Must not add any response to the allegations
- Must not say the practitioner admits or denies anything
- Must not send the letter
The lawyer checks
- The request goes out before the specified period ends
- The letter does not contain the submissions or a preview of them
- Any extension that is granted is in writing and diarised
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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- let the AI tools you connect read it from that knowledge base.
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