Assessments and briefings

Assessments

Four kinds of reading, from a first look at a search packet to a contested entry. Each one ends in a written note you can put on a file.

The work is the same whether the book is a titles folio, a professional roll, or a heritage listing: we open what may be opened, we name what is sealed, and we say whether an application should go forward.

Fees are quoted against the papers you send. Starting figures sit on the rates page. Conferences are held at the Adelaide Street rooms; papers-only files are taken from anywhere a registrar in Australia keeps a book.

Open bound books stacked on a wooden table

From $1,850 + GST for one register

Registry Access Assessment

A written reading of your standing against one named Australian register: what the book holds, who may inspect it, and whether an application should be lodged, recast, or left alone.

Ten to fifteen working days after papers are complete

Hands reviewing a stack of signed paper documents on a desk

From $920 + GST

Application File Review

A line-by-line reading of a draft application before it is lodged, so the registrar’s correction notice is not the first person to find the missing declaration.

Five to eight working days

A pile of aged hardbound volumes on a table

From $640 + GST

Title and Search Briefing

An unpacking of a titles search, company extract, or roll print that has been treated as a one-page certificate when it is in fact a pile of memorials.

Four to seven working days

Wax-sealed correspondence tied in a bundle

Quoted after the objection letter is read

Contested Entry Support

Preparation of the paper that answers a registrar, a board, or an objector when an entry on the book is opposed, delayed, or proposed for removal.

Set against the date on the letterhead