The Federal Circuit and Family Court annual report provides information for our stakeholders and the wider community about the court’s operations and performance in each financial year, and review our progress.

This Guide is for proceedings conducted in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) and the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (Courts). The term ‘electronic hearing’ is used throughout this guide to refer to court hearings conducted via electronic means, either videoconferencing or teleconferencing.

Use this form to provide information about the financial circumstances of a corporation in support of an application to defer payment of court fees on the grounds that, considering those circumstances, it would be oppressive or otherwise unreasonable to require payment of the fee at the time it is required under the Regulation.

Use this form to provide information about your financial circumstances in support of an application to defer payment of court fees on the grounds that, considering those circumstances, it would be oppressive or otherwise unreasonable to require payment of the fee at the time it is required under the Regulation.

This form must be completed on the first occasion you file a document in your proceeding on which a fee is payable or at any time later if the Court requests it so the Court can assess the correct fee rate which applies to you.

Use this form to claim a refund of court fees paid if:
a. you have paid more for court fees that you were required to pay under the Regulation (to claim back the excess paid); or
b. you have paid a court fee but it had already been paid by another person or it was not payable under the Regulation at all (to claim back the whole of the fee you paid); or
c. for a hearing that has not commenced, you paid a hearing fee and you notified the Court within the time required by subsection 2.19(6) of the Regulation that the hearing would not occur or would occur only for the purpose of making formal orders (to claim back all of the hearing fee paid); or
d. for a hearing that has not commenced, you paid a hearing fee but the hearing did not occur or occurred only for the purpose of making formal orders and, although you did not notify the Court as required by paragraph 2.19(5)(a) and subsection 2.19(6) of the Regulation, this was not because of any fault on your part (to claim back the hearing fee paid); or
e. for a hearing that has commenced, you have paid a hearing fee for a hearing day which was not required because:
o the proceeding settled or was discontinued; or
o for some other reason the hearing did not proceed on the hearing day paid for
(to claim back the hearing fee paid for unused hearing days)
f. you have paid a mediation fee for a mediation attendance which did not proceed and the Court, a Judicial Officer or Registrar has ordered this fee be refunded (to claim back the fee ordered to be refunded).

This information notice provides the profession with information about jurisprudential and other developments that relate to Applications for Review of registrar decisions, since the commencement of the new case management pathway in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court).

This brochure summarises what Court staff can and cannot provide or do