Supreme Court of New South Wales

Forms

Approved and prescribed forms

  1. Approved unif​orm civil forms​ (forms approved for use by the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules Committee)
  2. Prescribed forms (these forms are set out in  Schedule F of the Supreme Court Rules 1970. They may be adapted to conform with the new uniform format for filing in certain civil proceedings)
  3. Prescribed Corporations law forms (these forms are set out in Schedule 1 of the Supreme Court (Corporations Rules) 1999)  
  4. Forms in the Court of Criminal Appeal

Various forms have been prescribed under the Supreme Court Rules for use in the Court. Where a form has been approved under the Uniform Rules, the form approved under the Uniform Rules takes precedence.  

Where there is no approved form under the Uniform Rules, the forms prescribed under the Supreme Court Rules should be adapted to accord with the format of documents under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (UCPR).

In summary

  1. Forms used in the Court of Appeal are approved forms under the UCPR.
  2. Forms used in civil proceedings in the Common Law Division and the Equity Division (except in Corporations matters) should be adapted in accordance with the UCPR.
  3. On 21 January 2013, prescribed probate forms 90 to 120 were repealed and replaced with approved civil forms under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005. You can access the approved forms from the Probate forms page.

Approved forms

You can download precedents for the approved uniform civil forms from the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules website.

If you need assistance completing the approved forms required in a probate application, please refer to Filing instructions for probate and Probate forms page.



Last updated:

19 Jun 2024

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