Court Vacation 2024 - 2025

The Court vacation will commence Monday, 23 December 2024 and conclude Friday, 31 January 2024.

The new Court term begins on Monday, 3 February 2025.

A Duty Judge is available for urgent listings during the vacation.

Matters may be listed for s 34 conferences, s 26 mediations and hearings before Commissioners throughout the vacation except for the public holidays and the public service holiday on Friday, 27 December 2024.

The final Registrar's directions hearing list for 2024 will be on Wednesday, 18 December 2024. The Registrar's directions hearing list will resume on Monday, 20 January 2025.

Information on Registry opening hours over the Court Vacation available here (PDF, 127.1 KB).

Both Online Registry and Online Court will be operating 24 hours a day as normal during the vacation period. Parties are encouraged to avail themselves of these resources:

• Applications, appeals, notices of motion and subpoenas can continue be filed by Online Registry.
• Directions, listing dates and access orders for subpoenas and notices to produce can continue to be sought in Online Court.
• Filings and requests in criminal matters can continue by email to LEC_criminalfilings@justice.nsw.gov.au throughout the vacation period.
• Filings and requests in tree dispute matters can continue by email to treedisputefilings@justice.nsw.gov.au throughout the vacation period.