---
title: "Show cause event: notice, fitness statement and deadline checklist (Uniform Law)"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/show-cause-event-notice-and-fitness-statement"
type: "precedent"
site: "AI Law Framework"
id: "a63-show-cause-event-notice-and-fitness-statement"
area_id: "A63"
kind: "checklist"
ai_level: "yellow"
version: 1
task_ids: ["A63-H20261018-8", "A63-H20261018-1"]
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-22"
---

# 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.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/show-cause-event-notice-and-fitness-statement  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-22

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## Key facts

- Kind: Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Practice area: [Professional Discipline & Occupational Regulation](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation.md)
- Jurisdictions: New South Wales, Victoria
- AI level: Yellow. You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-22
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-22 against the 6 authorities it cites, for New South Wales and Victoria.

## 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

- [Advise on a practising certificate or licence decision](https://ailawframework.com/practice/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/advise-on-a-practising-certificate-or-licence-decision.md)
- [Build the complaint, investigation and deadline register for a practitioner](https://ailawframework.com/practice/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/build-the-complaint-investigation-and-deadline-register-for-a-practition.md)

## 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

## Authorities

- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 86 (automatic show cause event: bankruptcy-related event, or conviction for a serious offence or a tax offence)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s86.html)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 87 (applicant must include a statement about the event and why they are fit and proper, unless an earlier statement under this Part was given)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s87.html)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 88 (holder: written notice within 7 days after the event, and a fitness statement within 28 days, or a longer period allowed on an application made inside that period)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s88.html)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 90 (designated show cause event: notice alleging practice outside a condition, services not permitted, or a failure to hold complying professional indemnity insurance) and s 91 (fitness statement within 28 days after service)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s90.html)
- [Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) s 51 (statutory condition to notify a charge for a serious offence, a tax offence or a specified offence, a bankruptcy-related event, or foreign disciplinary proceedings, within 7 days; s 51(3) excludes an offence to which s 86 applies)](https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/lpul333/s51.html)
- [Law Society of NSW, Offences and show cause events (how NSW solicitors notify; Rule 15 of the Legal Profession Uniform General Rules 2015 and summary offences)](https://www.lawsociety.com.au/practising-law-in-NSW/rules-and-legislation/show-cause-events)

## 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/professional-discipline-and-occupational-regulation/show-cause-event-notice-and-fitness-statement 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.*