Contested Probate
It was foreshadowed by the NSW Supreme Court (Court) at the end
of 2019 that a new form of case management for contested probate
cases would be introduced in 2020. The aim was to introduce a
more rigorous form of case management to facilitate the quick, just
and cheap resolution of contested probate cases.
In early 2020, the Court website advised that from 3 February
2020, the Probate List would be case managed by the Probate List
Judge (who would take over the List from the senior deputy
registrar in probate).
The Court website also published in its probate section a
practice guide titled Probate List Guidelines. Appendices to
the Guidelines provide a form of Disclosure Statement (Appendix A)
and Standard Form Orders (Appendix B).
