Practice Direction No 2 of 2003 - Guidelines for expert witnesses and those instructing them in proceedings in the Family Court.
New Family Law Rules
Family Law Rules 2004 - see Schedule 5 - Expert Conferences

Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal

VCAT - Practice Note 2 - Expert Evidence

Relevant Acts

New South Wales Legislation:

Queensland Legislation:

Victoria Legislation:

Federal Legislation:

Family Law Act 1975
Financial Transaction Reports Regulations 1990 (PDF, 127KB)
Superannuation Guarantee Act 1992
ITAA 1936 (law.ATO.gov.au)
ITAA 1997 (law.ATO.gov.au)
Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (PDF, 420 KB)

APRA Report on Superannuation

A working paper released by APRA has provided an in-depth assessment of the Australian superannuation industry's investment performance across all funds and sectors from June 1995 to June 2002 and highlights a number of keypoints relevant to the industry. View the report here (PDF, 125KB). (You will need Acrobat Reader. Download here or contact your system administrator for assistance.)

Tables

Present Value Tables (PDF, 19KB): How $1 left at compound interest will grow and what $1 due in the future is worth today. (Figure used to calculate superannuation economic loss)

$1 per week factors (PDF, 59KB): This document provides a schedule of $1 per week factors for males and females at 3%, 5% and 6% discount rates ceasing at death, age 65, age 60 and age 55 which include mortality according to Australian Life Table 2000 to 2002.

Reasonable Benefit Limits table (ATO.gov.au): This table is used to determine the concessional tax rates limits of reasonable benefit limit (RBL) for a particular financial year. Includes both the pension and lump sum RBL.

Superannuation guarantee rate (ATO.gov.au): This table details the historical and current statutory superannuation charges.

Low rate threshold?post-June 83 components of eligible termination payments (ATO.gov.au): This table contains the low rate threshold limits set each financial year for the cash amount of any post-June 1983 component a person can receive that is taxed at the lowest rates for eligible termination payments. The limit is a lifetime limit.

Perpetual Calendar (Word Doc, 242 KB): Work out the day of the week of a particular date falls on. Covers 1897 to 2036.

Online Calculators

The World Clock: The World Clock - Time Zones

Foreign Currency Convertor: FXConverter (Foreign Exchange Currency Converter) is a multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity for 164 currencies.

Unit Converter: To convert any measurement to the terminology that you are familiar with.

Further References

See also the Links of Interest page on this site.

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