District Court Judicial Registrar's General List at Sydney

Using Online Court

The Online Court is available to all legal practitioners with an Online Registry account. All legal practitioners appearing in matters in the Judicial Registrar’s General List at Sydney must be registered users of the online registry.

All legally represented matters in the Judicial Registrar’s General List at Sydney are automatically entered into the Online Court and will be managed in the Online Court unless the Court otherwise orders.

Managing matters

Any matter listed in the Judicial Registrar’s General List at Sydney, will automatically be able to be used by litigants to make a request. Either party can make a consent request online provided they attach signed consent orders. Any party can also make a request online, the opposing parties can consent or counter this request.

The Judicial Registrar will review requests made through Online Court and make orders. The recording of an order in Online Court can result in:

• vacating the next Directions listing, and scheduling a new listing date
• recording identical orders sought by you, or the Registrar’s preferred orders; as is the case in the physical courtroom, the orders recorded are at the Registrar’s discretion.

You can make requests to

(including, but not limited to):

• setting timetables for trial preparation
• referring the matter to mediation
• seeking an adjournment
• referring the matter to the List Judge
• scheduling a listing date.

Cut-off times

Registered users must submit requests to the Judicial Registrar by no later than 2:00pm three days prior to the Online Court sitting.  Counter requests and consent to pending orders must be submitted by no later than 6:00pm three days prior to the Online Court sitting.

If requests and counter requests are not received within the times specified all parties are required to attend court in person on the scheduled court date.  Failing to submit requests or consent orders in the Online Court in accordance with the cut-off times will be treated as a non-appearance in the proceedings.  Any further non-appearance may result in the proceedings being dismissed.

Any party may, by 2pm three days prior to the Online Court sitting, submit a request to the Judicial Registrar for the matter to be dealt with in open court on the basis that the matter is not suitable to be dealt with using the Online Court.  The decision to list a matter in the physical Court is entirely at the discretion of the Judicial Registrar.  In general, contested directions are not a sufficient basis to have a matter transferred to a physical Court listing.

Notifications

All parties will be notified by email when:

• a message is posted to the Online Court
• a request is submitted via the Online Court
• a response to an Online Court request is made (consent or counter a request)
• the Registrar has responded to a request and made an order.

Messaging

At any time during Online Court:

• legal practitioners may send a message to the Judicial Registrar
• the Judicial Registrar may send messages to the parties
• messages will be visible to all parties in the Online Court record.

Messages posted in the Online Court must be:

• directed to the Court (not for inter-party communications)
• relevant to the topic under discussion
• concise
• posted in a timely manner.

The Judicial Registrar may also give instructions regarding:

• the acceptable length of messages
• the time and date by which messages must be received.

Online Court records

All actions including requests, consents, counter requests, reasons, messages, documents, commentary and orders made in Online Court will be recorded in the Online Court record and will be visible to all parties. You can request a free transcript of the Online Court record by emailing [email protected]. If the request is made by someone who is not directly involved in the case, the transcript will only be distributed once the Registrar has approved its release.

Feedback and technical support

Submit your feedback and technical issues under the topic of Online Court and we will get back to you.

If you experience any issues using the system, please email [email protected] with details of the problem, including screen images where possible, so we can assist you.