The Content Team have added the following NEW critical dates to Calendar & Tasks in ACT Lease matter types:
Lease commencement, Lease termination and Lease registration dates will auto-populate in the Lease Details table when entered in Calendar & Tasks.
The following form has been updated:
The following forms have been repealed:
To assist clients in utilising the most out of the immigration matter types in LEAP, we have created an information sheet on How to complete an Immigration Law matter (accessible via the LEAP Community page).
The information sheet delves into the various immigration law matter types including:
Details of the main tables types and critical dates within these matter types have also been outlined in this information sheet.
For information sheets for how to complete other matter types, please visit the LEAP Community page.
The Content Team have added File Review Date to the Critical Date default scheme. This means this new Critical Date will appear in all new Matter Types created.
To obtain the new Critical Date in your existing matters, you will need to change the Matter Type and then change it back again, this will refresh the Date scheme.
The Critical Date default scheme now consists of:
• Instruction Date
• File Review Date
• Completion/Settlement Date
• Not Proceeding Date
Create an appointment for the File Review Date, or postpone the appointment directly from Calendar & Tasks:
The following forms have been updated:
The Conveyancing details layout has been updated to provide for Residential Withholding Tax payments on both sale and purchase matter types. The “RW payment amount” will auto-calculate, based on the completed purchase price, for all items within the drop-down list which includes:
When “10% of GST exclusive market value” applies, complete the “GST exclusive amount” to enable the “RW payment amount” to auto-calculate.
Critical Date
To compliment these changes, the GST Withholding notification date has been added to Critical Dates in Calendar & Tasks for both sale and purchase matter types. For more information on setting Critical Dates appointments and Tasks, visit LEAP Communities.
In addition, the Date of Auction on this layout will now pre-populate from the corresponding Critical Dates when completed within Calendar & Tasks.
Feedback can be provided on these improvements here.
The Content Team have added the following NEW critical dates to Calendar & Tasks in ACT Estate matter types in Desktop:
| Notice of intended application advertised | First date application can be made |
Date of grant |
| Realisation of Assets complete | Notice of intended distribution advertised | Date for distribution |
| Interim distribution date | Final distribution date | Distribution under family provision legislation |
Dates that appear on the Estate Details layout and critical dates will be entered in Calendar & Tasks and will pre-populate to the layout.
To greatly assist your workflow, you can create “Recurring Task” templates or “Due Date Tasks” based on the critical dates entered within your matter (which integrate with Outlook).
See LEAP Communities to create Recurring Task templates across your Estate matters so that these are created once and used on multiple matters.
See LEAP Communities to also create Due Date Tasks. Within the Task created, you can also:
Tasks created will appear in the Tasks List of the matter and will be crossed/grayed out when you mark them as Complete. You will also receive ‘Task Due Notifications’ in your matter lists. These notifications are hyperlinks, therefore, you can click on them and you will be taken directly to the Task itself in the matter.
For more articles regarding Calendar & Tasks see LEAP Communities.
NOTE: If you would like the new critical dates to appear in your “existing” matters, you will need to change the matter type to a different matter type, save, and then change back again to the correct matter type, this will “refresh” the critical date scheme.
Provide feedback on the new Estates critical dates here.
Two new Matter Types have been created to make it easier for clients to create their matters more in line with the way LEAP works. This is also to ensure that they are using the correct By Lawyers publications. They were Federal Matter Types but are now State based Matter Types. These new matter types can be found here –
For state-based guides and precedents to be visible from existing matters, LEAP users will need to change their matter type from Other areas of law > Miscellaneous > Disputes to Other areas of law > Disputes > [selecting the relevant new matter type].
For more information visit the By Lawyers Obiter blog – http://obiter.bylawyers.com.au/matter-type-changes-neighbourhood-disputes-and-defamation/
The form entitled ‘Notice of death by surviving proprietor‘ – Form 015 – (LL-ACT-LT-040) has been updated to version AF2018-34 and supersedes AF2018-10.
The following new form has been added:
The following forms have been updated:
The following forms have been revoked:
