Practice Direction No. 31

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Applications for Admission

Supreme Court Admission Rules

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The following practice direction is published in order to make the profession aware of a number of requirements relating to the preparation of the documentation forming part of an application to be admitted, particularly where interstate and overseas applicants are concerned.

 

1.      Each page of any affidavit filed in relation to an application for admission must be signed by the deponent and the person before whom the affidavit is sworn or affirmed.  Each page must bear the date upon which the affidavit is sworn or affirmed.  The person before whom the affidavit was sworn or affirmed must, underneath the jurat, state their entitlement to administer the oath or affirmation and set out their name in full.  The jurat must not be on a page separate from the conclusion of the matters deposed to in the affidavit.

 

2.      Affidavits of service must be sworn or affirmed by the person who actually served the document required to be served.

 

3.      When filing the newspaper advertisement containing notice of the applicant's intention to apply for admission as a practitioner in South Australia, the relevant page of the newspaper bearing the date of publication must be provided.

 

4.      When filing the Board of Examiners Report, a filing clause should not be contained on either the frontsheet or backsheet as would otherwise be the case with all other Court documents.

 

5.      At least 14 days prior to the date on which the Court will be moved to admit the applicant, the applicant or his or her solicitor must advise by letter the Secretary to the Board of Examiners as to whether the applicant has been exempted from the requirement to attend the Full Court sittings at which his or her application for admission will be listed.  If the applicant has been so exempted he or she must request that the Supplementary Roll sheet be forwarded after the Court has approved their admission to enable the Roll to be signed in accordance with Practice Direction 29.  In the event that the above notification is not received it will be assumed that the applicant intends to attend personally at the relevant sittings.

 

 

DATED the 11th day of January 1995.

 

 

                                                                            (David Royle)

                                                                            REGISTRAR

 

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