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Show cause event: notice, fitness statement and deadline checklist (Uniform Law)

Checklist for a lawyer who must notify a show cause event or answer a designated show cause notice: which path applies, the 7-day and 28-day steps, and what the statement has to explain.

Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
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 6 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Victoria.
Version: 1
Source: Written for this library

When to use it

Use when an applicant for, or a holder of, an Australian practising certificate or registration certificate in a Uniform Law jurisdiction has a bankruptcy-related event, a conviction for a serious offence or a tax offence, or is served with a designated show cause notice. The fitness statement is the practitioner's own explanation, settled with the advising lawyer.

Used for these tasks

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 enter dates from the charge, conviction or notice and list which statutory path the documents appear to engage; the lawyer decides the path and the practitioner writes the fitness explanation.

AI may

Enter the date of the event, the date of service and the 7-day and 28-day dates from the documents, flagged for checking
List the allegations in a designated show cause notice beside the certificate condition or insurance fact they refer to

AI must not

Must not draft the fitness statement or say whether the practitioner is a fit and proper person
Must not decide that a finding of guilt is or is not a conviction for s 86
Must not send anything to the regulatory authority

The lawyer checks

The event is classified as an automatic show cause event, a designated show cause event, a s 51 notice, or more than one of those
The 7-day notice and the 28-day statement are diarised from the correct start date, and any extension is applied for inside the 28 days
The statement explains the facts and why the holder is fit and proper, in the practitioner's own account

Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.

Authorities

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