A court-ready hearing bundle, indexed and paginated, in an afternoon.
I assemble court books, tender bundles, and joint hearing bundles — indexed, paginated, cross-referenced, and compliant with the court's practice notes — so the associate accepts it on first inspection.
I assemble court bundles for Federal Court, NSW Supreme Court, Victorian Supreme Court, and the other AU courts — applying each court's practice note on bundle format. I build the index, apply consecutive pagination, generate cross-references between the pleadings and the exhibits, and produce a joint bundle suitable for the opposing party's agreement. Output is a court-ready PDF with bookmarks, or the electronic court book format your jurisdiction requires.
What changes
A 3-day Federal Court hearing needs a court book. A paralegal spends 2-3 days assembling the 1,200-page bundle — sourcing the documents, indexing, paginating, adding bookmarks, and cross-referencing against the statement of claim. Errors slip in under time pressure.
I assemble the same bundle in an afternoon. Index, pagination, bookmarks, and cross-references are consistent by construction. The paralegal reviews for completeness rather than builds from scratch.
From upload to output
Point to the documents
Give me the pleadings, the witness statements, the documentary exhibits, and the authorities list. Files from your PMS, disk, or shared drive.
Apply the court's bundle rules
I apply the format the court requires — Federal Court practice notes, UCPR 2005 (NSW) Part 31, Victorian Supreme Court practice notes, or the equivalent. Index format, pagination, bookmarks, and tab structure.
Cross-reference automatically
Every reference in the pleadings to a document gets a cross-reference to the bundle page number. Authorities in submissions get tab references. Witness statement paragraphs cross-reference their exhibits.
Joint bundle workflow
For joint hearing bundles, I produce a proposed bundle with a cover letter to the opposing party, handle their additions and objections, and produce the agreed final bundle.
What you can do with Quillio court bundle preparation
- Assemble Federal Court hearing bundles under the FCR 2011
- Build NSW Supreme Court court books under UCPR 2005
- Produce Victorian Supreme Court indexed bundles
- Create joint hearing bundles with the opposing party
- Generate authorities bundles for submissions
- Build tender bundles for interlocutory applications
- Produce appellate books of the trial record
- Create electronic court book format for e-trial jurisdictions
A real example
A 3-day Federal Court hearing on a commercial dispute. Pleadings closed; six witness statements filed; 180 documentary exhibits; 24 authorities cited in submissions. You need a joint hearing bundle agreed with the opposing party by Friday.
Upload the pleadings, witness statements, exhibits, and authorities. Tell me the hearing is Federal Court, and Practice Note CM 1 applies.
A 1,450-page joint hearing bundle in Federal Court format: tab 1 pleadings, tab 2 witness statements, tab 3 documentary exhibits (indexed chronologically with the cross-references from the witness statements already in place), tab 4 authorities bundle. Consecutive pagination, PDF bookmarks, and an index ready for the associate. A cover letter to the opposing party's solicitor proposing the bundle with space for their additions. Final agreed version turnaround under a week.
Documents, jurisdictions, and practice areas
Document types
- Court books
- Hearing bundles
- Joint trial bundles
- Tender bundles
- Authorities bundles
- Appeal books
- Interlocutory application bundles
- Electronic court books
Jurisdictions
- NSW
- VIC
- QLD
- WA
- SA
- TAS
- ACT
- NT
- Federal
Practice areas
- Litigation
- Commercial
- Employment
- Personal Injury
- Family
- Criminal
- Administrative
Court Bundle Preparation FAQs
Which court practice notes does it apply?
Federal Court Practice Note CM 1 (Case Management) and the list-specific practice notes; NSW Supreme Court Practice Notes SC Eq 1 and SC Gen 10; Victorian Supreme Court practice notes on trial bundle format; and the equivalents in QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT. I pick the right note from the jurisdiction and list.
Can it produce electronic court book format?
Yes. Federal Court eCourt, NSW Supreme Court electronic trial bundles, and the other AU e-trial formats are supported. Output is the format the court's electronic filing system accepts.
Does it handle joint bundle negotiation?
Yes. I produce a proposed bundle with a cover letter to the opposing party listing what is included. When they send their additions and objections, I incorporate the agreed items and flag the disputed ones for your decision. The iteration is faster than the manual process.
What about pagination and cross-references?
Consecutive pagination across the bundle; bookmarks on every tab and on every exhibit; cross-references from pleadings paragraphs to the bundle page number; authorities bundle with tab references matching the submissions. By construction, not by manual paralegal work.
Can it build appeal books?
Yes. Appeal books require the trial record in the specific format the appellate court directs — usually the pleadings, transcripts, exhibits, and judgment under appeal. I produce the appeal book to the format the Court of Appeal (state) or Full Federal Court requires.
What about confidentiality and privilege in the bundle?
I respect any confidentiality regime in place for the matter — confidential exhibits are paginated and indexed but can be separated into a confidential-bundle volume. Privileged documents should have been filtered before bundle preparation (see the redaction-privilege-review use case).
Try it on a current document.
The fastest way to test this is to run it against the next hearing bundle you need to assemble and compare it to the paralegal time it would take. Free trial, no credit card, no sales call.
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