Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1979 No. 140 FEDERAL COURT RULES - RULE 45.7

7. (1) Where a solicitor acts for a party to any proceeding and afterwards
ceases to act, the solicitor may, subject to sub-rule (2), file notice of the
change and serve the notice on the parties.

(2) A solicitor shall not file or serve notice of a change under sub-rule (1)
without leave of the Court unless he has, not less than 7 days before doing
so, served on his former client notice of his intention to file and serve the
notice of change.

(3) A solicitor filing a notice of change under sub-rule (1) shall, except
where the notice is filed with the leave of the Court, file and serve with the
notice an affidavit showing service in compliance with sub-rule (2).

(4) A solicitor may serve a notice under this rule on his former client by
posting it to the former client at the residential or business address of the
former client last known to the solicitor.