• Joint Costs Advisory Committee - 2025 Call for Submissions

    JCAC welcomes submissions from interested parties on changes to the quantum of costs allowable to legal practitioners under each court’s scale of costs.

  • Appendix 6 - Committees

    Table A6.1: Federal Circuit Court Committees, 30 June 2021 Overarching Committees Title Members Terms of reference National Practice Area Committee

  • Part 4: Management and accountability

    Corporate governance This section reports on aspects of the Federal Circuit Court’s corporate governance arrangements. The legal framework for the Federal Circuit Court’s corporate governance practices is set out in the Federal Circuit Court of Australia Act 1999, the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (Cth) and the Public Service Act 1999 (Cth).

  • Practice and procedure update: new General Federal Law Rules made and registered, commencing 1 September 2025

    The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (General Federal Law) Rules 2025 (New GFL Rules) have been made by the Court, and will commence on 1 September 2025.

  • Privacy Impact Assessment Register

    The Privacy (Australian Government Agencies – Governance) APP Code 2017 (Cth) (the APP Code) requires that all agencies, including the Court, must conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for all high privacy risk projects.

  • Media release: Indigenous families in the Lismore region to benefit from specialised services dedicated to helping families navigate the family law system

    The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia - Division 2 (the Court), is pleased to announce the commencement of a Specialist Indigenous List (SIL) operating from Lismore registry in NSW.  A welcome ceremony involving key local Indigenous legal support services was hosted by the Court in Lismore today to mark the commencement of the List and expansion of local support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families who are involved in family law proceedings.

  • Copyright

    © Commonwealth of Australia The Commonwealth of Australia (the Commonwealth) owns the copyright under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) in all information and material produced by the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court) except for judgments and information and other material created by the Judges of the Court.

  • Practice and procedure update: Family law appeals eFiling, Appeals Practice Direction update

    The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) (the Court) is pleased to announce that the Commonwealth Courts Portal has been updated to permit the eFiling of documents in its appellate jurisdiction from 9 December 2024.
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