ByLawyers News and Updates

1 July – All states

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1 July updates are always a big focus for By Lawyers. Many Commonwealth and state legislative instruments provide for the scheduled indexing of relevant monetary amounts, and adjustments – usually increases – in government fees and charges. These regular updates occur at the start of every financial year and they impact many different areas of law, and therefore numerous By Lawyers publications.

The 1 July updates include court filing fees, lodgment fees for property dealings, land tax thresholds, minimum weekly compensation amounts for Workers Compensation, the cap on damages in defamation claims, and penalty units for fines for various criminal offences and civil penalty provisions.

By Lawyers always monitor and apply these changes for our subscribers. Each year we ensure our publications are amended where necessary to reflect 1 July updates.

We also monitor and update for similar legislative indexing and increases which occur regularly at other times of the year. These include 1 January changes and other specific dates for various areas of law as prescribed by some statutes.

The 1 July updates have been applied this year, or are in the process of being applied as they get released, to the following By Lawyers publications:

Quite separately, there is also new and amending legislation from both Commonwealth and state parliaments that commences on 1 July. Substantive amendments have been made to a number of By Lawyers publications to account for the commencement of such legislation. Please see the various other By Lawyers News & Updates posts dealing with those updates.

By Lawyers is always up to date!

Traffic offences – NSW – Infringement notice offences

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The commentary in the By Lawyers NSW Traffic Offences Guide now includes a section on ‘Infringement notice offences’, dealing with the situation where a client wishes to challenge a traffic infringement notice in court.

The commentary now also includes a table of common infringement notice offences, detailing the maximum penalty and demerit points applicable for each offence, along with the section of the relevant legislation establishing the offence.

The penalty referred to in the table is the maximum penalty for an offence if convicted by a court, so the table is useful for advising the client what penalty will apply if they take the matter to court but are unsuccessful.

To assist with the comparison, there is a link to a table of common offences published by Roads & Maritime Services NSW which includes the applicable fine for each offence when not electing to have the matter heard by a court.

All penalties are stated in ‘penalty units’. For information about what a penalty unit is and how to calculate the monetary penalties, see the By Lawyers commentary ‘Calculating Penalty Units’.

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