Australian legal forms, assembled on your machine.
The Open Matter Plans Network hosts the forms a matter actually produces - the court and tribunal forms proceedings need, the council forms conveyancers lodge, and the state agency forms for land titles, duties, tenancies and guardianship. Each form carries its current version, a map to your matter data, and exact lodgement instructions. The form fills inside your own practice management system, so your client's details never leave your office.
Browse by Type
Court & Tribunal Forms
499 forms 7 jurisdictions
Forms filed with the courts and tribunals, classified by court and by the legislation that governs them.
Browse court formsCouncil Forms
100 forms 2 jurisdictions
Local-council lodgement forms - property searches and certificates - each with the current version and how to lodge it.
Browse council formsGovernment Agency Forms
140 forms 5 jurisdictions
Forms lodged with state government agencies - land titles, revenue and duties, residential tenancies, and guardianship.
Browse agency formsHow It Works
Pull the current form
We host the verified, version-tracked form for each authority and keep it current as they change it.
Assemble it locally
Your matter data fills the form inside your own practice management system. Nothing about your client is sent to us.
Lodge it
Each form carries its exact lodgement method and address - email, portal, registry, or post - resolved for you.
About the Document Catalogue
Legal work runs on forms - a court proceeding, a conveyance, a duties assessment, a titles dealing each has its own form, issued by its own authority, with its own way to lodge it. The Open Matter Plans Network gathers those forms into one catalogue, keeps each one current, and maps every field to the matter data your practice management system already holds.
The catalogue is the companion to our matter plans. The matter plan tells you how to run the matter; the document layer produces the paperwork it needs. Both are built to plug into your systems - browse them here, or integrate the catalogue directly through the document assembly API.
Frequently Asked Questions
What forms are on the Open Matter Plans document catalogue?
The catalogue currently holds 739 Australian legal forms across 7 jurisdictions - court and tribunal forms, local council lodgement forms, and state government agency forms (land titles, revenue and duties, residential tenancies, and guardianship). Each form carries its current version, a field map to your matter data, and exact lodgement instructions.
How are the forms organised?
By document type first - court and tribunal forms, council forms, and agency forms - then by jurisdiction (federal and each state), then by the authority that issues the form. Every form also has its own page, and you can search the whole catalogue with filters for jurisdiction, authority, court, and format.
How do the forms stay current?
A change-monitoring pipeline watches the upstream source for every form we host. When an authority changes a form, we detect it, classify whether the change is cosmetic or structural, and refresh the template - so the version you assemble against is the version the authority expects to receive.
Can I integrate the catalogue into my practice management system?
Yes. The catalogue is exposed via a structured API: list authorities, fetch the latest form metadata and lodgement details, download the template, and pull the canonical matter-field vocabulary. See the API documentation to integrate it into your PMS.