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Can Acquit warn me before an online adjournment cutoff passes?

Yes. Around 8:00am, Acquit sends an in-app reminder for each matter approaching its online adjournment cutoff, naming the client, the listing and the exact deadline.

The courts only accept an online adjournment up to a hard deadline: 4:00pm with two clear business days before a Magistrates listing, or 1:00pm the business day before a Brisbane District listing. Once that window closes, the only options left are ringing the registry or appearing.

Click a reminder to open that court date, where Adjourn Online sits at the bottom ready to lodge. When several matters are closing at once they stack into one row in your notifications; open it and click any client to go straight to that listing.

The deadline wording stays accurate: a reminder you left unread reads “today at 4pm” when the day comes, and once the window has shut it says so and points you to the registry.

Timing and other options

By default the reminder fires one business day before the cutoff. For a Friday mention (cutoff Tuesday 4:00pm) that means Monday morning, leaving time to speak to the prosecutor first. Tune it in SettingsNotifications:

  • Timing: on the cutoff day itself, or 1, 2 or 3 business days before. Weekends and Queensland public holidays are skipped, including local show days.
  • Which listings: by default Mentions, DVO Mentions and Committal Mentions. Mention (Appearance Required) and Review are listed but unticked; tick them if your firm uses those labels for ordinary mentions. Any other appearance type can be added too.
  • Also email me: off by default; when on, an email mirrors each in-app reminder.
Who gets it, and when it stays quiet

The reminder goes to everyone who can act on the matter: whoever holds it, plus anyone assisting with write access. Each person’s own timing and listing choices apply.

It stays quiet when there is nothing to do: the listing is already adjourned, an application has already been lodged, a town agent is covering the appearance, the client is archived, the cutoff has already passed, or the matter cannot be lodged online at all (Supreme Court, or a District matter outside Brisbane).

Turning it off

It is on by default. Switch off Online adjournment cutoff reminders in SettingsNotifications.

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