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Elegals Litigator's Toolkit (Jackson and Pastellas) is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld). It includes the complete Uniform Civil Procedure Rules, extensive commentary and analysis incorporating new cases weekly, and access to Practice Directions, and forms.
Elegals Litigator’s Toolkit (Jackson and Pastellas) makes finding the right rule (and knowing what to do with it when you get there) simple. An Overview & Key Features, and a Beginner's Guide is provided for each chapter. An expert commentary is provided for each rule within each chapter.
We have also included the easiest way to access forms prescribed by the Rules, practice directions, costs and fees, relevant legislation and relevant caselaw; wherever possible, they are linked. In practical terms, this means that users can access all of that material at the click of a button, without leaving their desktop.
Our unique "Search Toolkit" function finds the information you want and takes you to the source at the click of a button.
The principal contributors to the Elegals Litigator’s Toolkit (Jackson and Pastellas) are Sheryl Jackson (former Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, QUT), and Julie Pastellas (senior lecturer, Faculty of Law, QUT). Numerous additional contributions have been made by specialist academics and private practitioners.
Subscribers are alerted to the following significant case updates
Rule 161 - application for further and better particulars - request for particulars
Bordonaro v State of Queensland [2022] QDC 2 (18.1.2022)
Rule 161 - application for order for particulars - consequential orders and directions - confidentiality; court may decline to order particulars until after disclosure
Adani Mining v Pennings [2021] QSC 343 (16.12.2021)
Rule 209 - disclosure - proceedings to which chapter applies - judicial review proceedings
Rolleston Coal Holdings Pty Limited v The Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships [2021] QSC 328 (14.12.2021)
Rule 375 - power to amend - rule 375(1) - wide discretion to permit/require amendment
Rolleston Coal Holdings Pty Limited v The Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships [2021] QSC 328 (14.12.2021)
Rule 573 - judicial review - orders and directions at directions hearing
Rolleston Coal Holdings Pty Limited v The Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships [2021] QSC 328 (14.12.2021)
Rule 72 - party dies during proceeding - substitution of trustee as party
Thompson v Cavalier King Charles Spaniel Rescue (Qld) Inc [2021] QSC 322 (10.12.2021)
Rule 127 ordinary service outside Australia - court's discretion whether to assume jurisdiction - insufficient prospects of success
Wong v Star Entertainment Qld Limited [2021] QCA 277 (10.12.2021)
Rule 5 - philosophy - overriding obligations of parties and court - impact on common law
Fudo Ninjas Pty Ltd v HSW Nominees Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 351 (2.12.2021)
Rule 16 - set aside originating process - application of rule - stay a proceeding
Fudo Ninjas Pty Ltd v HSW Nominees Pty Ltd [2021] QSC 351 (2.12.2021)
Rule 110 - personal service on prisoner
Kumar v Ernst [2021] QCA 260 (30.11.2021)
Rule 389 - continuation of proceeding after delay - no requirement for personal service of notice of intention to proceed
Kumar v Ernst [2021] QCA 260 (30.11.2021)
Rule 62 - necessary parties - court order without application?
Tingalpa Tyre & Mechanical Pty Ltd v Onza Industries Pty Ltd [2021] QCA 252 (26.11.2021)
Rule 389A - restricting applications that are frivolous, vexatious or abuse of court's process
Young v Crime and Corruption Commission [2021] QCA 256 (26.11.2021)
Rule 569 - judicial review - relief based on application for review if application made for statutory order for review
Sica v Attorney-General for the State of Queensland [2021] QSC 309 (26.11.2021)
Other recent updates
Uniform Civil Procedure (Fees) and other Legislation Amendment Regulation 2021[SL No 11 of 2021] was notified on 18.2.2021. According to the Explanatory Note, this amending regulation was made "to remove duplication in the rules in relation to the amendment of pleadings following a request for trial date."
Principal Registrar (Supreme and District Courts) Approval 1 of 2020 (Electronic filing of documents under the UCPR) - updated 3.3.2021 under r975C(1)(b) to approval pdf as an electronic file format for sworn or affirmed documents filed electronically as an imaged document.
District Court Practice Direction 7 of 2020 (13.8.2020)
Supreme Court Practice Direction 10 of 2020 Informal Wills / COVID-19 (22.4.2020)
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