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QLD – Litigation matter types

We have recently added a new feature called Table relations to QLD Litigation matter types.

Card table relations have been implemented for the following QLD Litigation matter types which will enable all related cards to be linked together:

  • Debt Recovery – Magistrates Court

  • District Court Appeal

  • District Court Litigation

  • High Court Appeal

  • High Court Litigation

  • Magistrates Court Litigation

  • Supreme Court Litigation

Table relations provide smart association of related parties and/or relevant data through both cards and tables to ensure matter types are easier to complete.

Some common Litigation table relations include Defendant and Defendant’s Solicitor.

This is particularly helpful in Litigation matter types when there is more than one Other side and Other side’s Solicitor, it is now easy to identify which Solicitor belongs with which Other side.

Some of these card tables are not Standard tables but are available in Other possible tables and when added to the matter through edit table types will link with the relevant related card or table.

If required, you can also edit table relations per matter by right clicking on the Matter Details and selecting Edit Table relations, you will then be presented with a list of relations to un-associate – simply untick any tables you wish to unlink.

Details are also available on the Help Centre.

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Court Book Cover Pages

The following new Court book cover pages have been created in the relevant litigation LEAP Forms folders:

  • Appeal book cover page – Fair Work Commission [LL-FED-GEN-051]
  • Application book cover page – High Court [LL-FED-GEN-052]
  • Court book cover page – ACT all Courts [LL-ACT-GEN-003]
  • Court book cover page – Federal Court [LL-FED-GEN-053]
  • Court book cover page – NSW District Court [LL-NSW-GEN-0083]
  • Court book cover page – NSW Local Court [LL-NSW-GEN-0084]
  • Court book cover page – NSW Supreme Court [LL-NSW-GEN-0085]
  • Court book cover page – NT Supreme Court [LL-NT-GEN-002]
  • Court book cover page – Federal Circuit Court and Family Court [LL-FED-GEN-054]
  • Court book cover page – QLD District Court [LL-QLD-GEN-028]
  • Court book cover page – QLD Magistrates Court [LL-QLD-GEN-029]
  • Court book cover page – QLD Supreme Court [LL-QLD-GEN-030]
  • Court book cover page – TAS Supreme Court [LL-TAS-GEN-009]
  • Court book cover page – VIC County Court [LL-VIC-GEN-040]
  • Court book cover page – VIC Magistrates Court [LL-VIC-GEN-041]
  • Court book cover page – VIC Supreme Court [LL-VIC-GEN-042]
  • Court book cover page – SA all Courts [LL-SA-GEN-013]
  • Trial bundle cover page – WA Supreme Court [LL-WA-GEN-008]

These cover pages can be used when compiling court books, appeal books, tender books and trial bundles.  You can also use BundlePro to assist in compiling these books and bundles.

What is BundlePro?

BundlePro is a new innovation to help law firms meet the new requirements associated with the electronic submission of CourtBooks. It integrates with LEAP to allow law firms to create professional, presentable, searchable and cost effective electronic PDF bundles for the courts in minutes.

BundlePro automatically converts large volumes of documents into a single PDF, complete with an auto-generated paginated index, bookmarks, hyperlinks and a cover page. The contents of the electronic binder is then run through a forensic OCR, making the text fully searchable.  Simple and user friendly, BundlePro will save you time and money. Once a bundle has been created, an automatic disbursement can be generated and saved back to your client’s ledger in LEAP, ensuring you recover any expenses incurred.

Want to learn more?

Book your free BundlePro demonstration today.

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QLD – Litigation Guardian

A Litigation guardian layout is now available.  If you would like to include this new layout in your court matter, edit Table Types and add Litigation guardian.

Form 13 – Consent of litigation guardian (LL-QLD-UCP032) has had a coding update to ensure it will populate with the litigation guardian if this card is completed in your matter.

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QLD – UCPR

The following forms have recently been updated:

  • Form 71 – Statement of financial position (person) (LL-QLD-UCP101); and
  • Form 71A – Statement of financial position (company) (LL-QLD-UCP147).

 

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QLD – new LEAP Document Manager forms

During the last quarter of FY19, the LEAP Content team have been working on a project to change the functionality behind our forms to use a Word App entitled LEAP Document Manager “LDM”.

This change is necessary to make our forms compatible with Word Online.  Over the next few months you will see this functionality become more frequently used in our forms.

Rest assured, from a user perspective, information contained within your LEAP Matter will still auto-populate directly into the LDM form, however, the functionality will be slightly different.  From a user perspective there will be –

  • No more pop up dialogs to answer questions.
  • Questions/information required (where relevant) will be contained in the LDM which is displayed in a side panel on the righthand side of your documents.

As we transition to the new LDM forms, the current versions will remain in LEAP for approximately one month for your use.  Therefore, each version of the form will have a separate precedent code, with the suffix of “LDM” in the form name.  We will notify you further when the current forms are to be deleted and the LDM versions will remain.

Please see the LEAP Community articles on ‘Using the LEAP Document Manager‘ and ‘Adding the ‘LEAP Document Manager to Word‘ .

This release of the new LDM forms include:

Area of Law Precedent Name Precedent Code
Supreme Court Litigation Affidavit_LDM LL-QLD-SCC-25
Care & Protection and Adoption Affidavit_LDM LL-QLD-CHC-10

This new functionality will make working with the forms easier from a user perspective.  We are happy to hear your comments regarding this new functionality, please provide any feedback here.

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New Critical Dates for Litigation matter types

A new critical date scheme has been created and added to Calendar & Tasks for all state and federal Litigation matter types, which includes the following new critical dates:

  • Date of service of originating process
  • Due date for Defence
  • First court date
  • Further court date
  • Further court date
  • Mediation due by date
  • Hearing date
  • Settlement / Judgement

    • If you would like to submit any feedback to us please do so here.

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    QLD – Supreme Court Corporations Act 2001

    The following Supreme Court Corporations forms have been reviewed and updated where required:

    • Form 1 – Title (LL-QLD-SCC-01);
    • Form 2 – Originating motion (LL-QLD-SCC-11);
    • Form 3 – Interlocutory application (LL-QLD-SCC-12);
    • Form 8 – Consent of liquidator or provisional liquidator (LL-QLD-SCC-17).

     

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    FED – Service and Execution of Process

    The following changes have been made to this suite of forms –

    Updated –

    • Notice to defendant (LL-FED-SEPA-01)
    • Notice to witness (Section 31) (LL-FED-SEPA-02)
    • Notice to witness (Section 41) (LL-FED-SEPA-03)
    • Notice to respondent (LL-FED-SEPA-04)
    • Notice to witness (Section 59) (LL-FED-SEPA-05)
    • Notice to witness (Section 69) (LL-FED-SEPA-06)

    Deleted –

    • Warrant of apprehension (LL-FED-SEPA-07)
    • Warrant of commitment (LL-FED-SEPA-08)

    The forms deleted were as a result of the Service and Execution of Process Regulations 1993 being repealed.