Precedents
Ensure you comply with mandatory disclosure requirements
To help your law practice comply with mandatory disclosure requirements, the Law Society’s Costs Committee has set up the forms in appendices 1 - 2 in Microsoft Word which you can customise with your firm’s and client’s data. Appendix 3 is a link to relevant Costs Assessment forms. Appendix 4 provides a template for a Privacy Policy.
1. Instructions received from 1 July 2015 (Legal Profession Uniform Law Sch 4 cl 18)
For clients other than commercial and government clients (Legal Profession Uniform Law s 170 and Corporations Act 2001 s 45A)
Costs disclosure and costs agreement
Costs disclosure and conditional costs agreement
Contracting out letters: Please note the implications of Todorovska v Bryden Lawyers P/L [2022] NSWCA 47 in using these precedents.
- Personal injury damages claim - letter to be given before entering into costs agreement
- Motor accidents compensation claim - letter to be given before entering into costs agreement
- Work injury damages claim - letter to be given before entering into costs agreement
2. Instructions received prior to 1 July 2015
Costs disclosures and costs agreements plus contracting out letters as used by the law practice prior to 1 July 2015
Billing notice - Form 3 with trust account and interest notices
3. Application forms for costs assessment
4. Privacy Policy
A law practice to which the Privacy Act 1988 applies must inform its clients how their personal information is collected and handled. To assist law practices to comply, this policy template is available. It must be adapted to the law practice's circumstances.
Further notes to assist in completing the documents can be found in the Costs Guidebook.