New South Wales Law Reform Commission
The Honourable D.P. Landa, LLB., M.P.,
Attorney General for New South Wales.
COMMUNITY LAW REFORM PROGRAM
Attached to this document is the report of this Commission pursuant to the reference dated 28 July 1982 and headed “Service of Civil Process on Sundays”.
Ronald Sackville
(Chairman)
Russell Scott
(Deputy Chairman)
Denis Gressier
(Commissioner)
J.R.T. Wood
(Commissioner)
August 1983.
Terms of Reference
Pursuant to section 10 of the Law Reform Commission Act 1967, I HEREBY REFER to the Law Reform Commission the following matters for inquiry and report to me:
(2) Service of Civil Process on Sundays
The law relating to the service of civil process on Sundays, and, in particular, without limiting the foregoing the service of initiating process issued out of a civil court and the service of subpoenas,
(4) Any matter incidental to the foregoing.
F.J. WALKER,
Attorney General.
28 July 1982,
New South Wales Law Reform Commission
The Law Reform Commission is constituted by the Law Reform Commission Act, 1967.
The Commissioners are:
Chairman
Professor Ronald Sackville
Deputy Chairman
Full-time Commissioners
Mr. Denis Gressier
Mr. J.RT Wood, Q.C.
Part- time Commissioners
Mr. I.MCC. Barker, Q.C.
Mr. J.H.P. Disney
The Hon Mr. Justice Adrian Roden
The Hon Mr. Justice Andrew Rogers
Ms. P. Smith
Mr. H.D. Sperling, Q.C.
Research Director
Members of the research staff are:
Ms. Helen Mills
Mr. Ian Ramsay
Ms. Fiona Tito
Ms. Meredith Wilkie
The Secretary of the Commission is Ms. Mariella Lizier and its offices are at 16th Level Goodsell Building, 8-12 Chifley Square, Sydney, N.S.W. 2000 (telephone: (02) 238 7213).
This is the Third Report of the Commission under its Community Law Reform Program. Its short citation is LRC.37.
Participants
Commission Members:
For the purpose of the reference the Chairman in accordance with section 12A of the Law Reform Commission Act, 1967 created a Division comprising the following members of the Commission -
Secretary:
Research:
Ms Ruth Jones (until 17 June 1983)
Word Processing:
Mrs Deborah Donnellan
Mrs Zoya Wynnyk