Forms

Commissioner forms

• Complaint form (147KB PDF)

Please note:

• If you are sending a complaint form to our office via email, we can only receive attachments less than 10MB in size in total.
• We will confirm your email has been received within 5 business days. If you have not received an acknowledgement from our office after this time, please contact us directly.

 

Practising certificates: Application/variation and renewal

Note: all applications for and variations of practising certificates must now be made via LSB Online

• Practising certificate renewal for 2018-19 year – Notes (79KB PDF)
• Application/Variation of Practising Certificate – Notes (85KB PDF)

• Notification of change of information – Local legal practitioner  Note: This form must now be completed through LSB Online
• Application for a practising certificate authorising receipt of trust money (436KB PDF)
• Application for a Principal practising certificate (520KB PDF)
• Application for grant or renewal of registration as foreign lawyer  – Locally-registered foreign lawyer  (120KB PDF)
• Notification of change of information – Locally registered foreign lawyer (89KB PDF)
• Statutory declaration for exemption from supervised legal practice (37KB DOC)
• Removal of supervised legal practice condition – Template statutory declaration and template supervisor’s letter (40KB DOC)

Notice of show cause event

• Notice of show cause event – local legal practitioner and locally registered foreign lawyer (98KB PDF)

Professional indemnity insurance exemptions

• Template exemption undertaking for PII (33KB DOC)

 

Law practices

Application/notification forms

• Notification of new law practice (Not ILP or ULP) (109KB PDF)
• Notice of intention to start providing legal services – corporation (ILP) (104KB PDF)
• Notice of intention to start providing legal services  – unincorporated legal practice (ULP) (104KB PDF)

Change/termination forms

• Notification of change information- law practice (112KB PDF)
• Notice of termination of provision of legal services – law practice (not ILP) (78KB PDF)
• Notice of termination of provision of legal services – corporation (ILP) (80KB PDF)

 

Legal costs

• Standard costs disclosure form for clients(44KB DOCX)

 

Trust account forms

Trust account records

• Record of Controlled money movements  (66KB PDF)
• Record of Controlled Money movements, other than by EFT (64KB PDF)
• Form: External Examiners (112KB PDF) (updated October 2018)
• Record of Investment Money (13KB PDF)
• FORM TRUST 8 Notification of Trust Account details (223KB PDF)
• Request for approval of termination of External Examiner (293KB PDF)

See also

• Fact sheet – Opening a Trust Account (216KB PDF)
• Fact sheet – Closing a Trust Account (352KB PDF)

 

End of year audit reporting

Please note: Paper forms are no longer available. Please submit end of year audit reporting forms using LSB Online.

For further information, download the fact sheet:  End of trust account audit year 2018 – Law practices and approved clerks (293KB PDF)

User Guide

• Annual End of year Trust Examination reporting – User guide (2.9MB PDF)

Final audit forms

• Form: External Examiner’s report – when a law practice ceases legal practice or authorisation to receive trust (128KB PDF) (updated October 2018)

Statutory deposit account forms

• Application for exemption from further deposit of $15,000 or less (76KB PDF)
• Authorisation to operate SDA (non-legal practitioner) Form (95KB PDF)
• Authorisation to operate SDA (legal practitioner) Form (86KB PDF)
• Direct Debit Request Form (69KB PDF)
• Notification of persons no longer authorised to operate SDA (81KB PDF)
• SDA quarterly deposit exemption application form (insufficient funds) (80KB PDF) Note: This form can be completed through LSB Online