Remove your name from a court list

Remove a court listing that shows your name from Court Lists Australia yourself, straight away and without giving any personal details.

You can remove a listing that shows your name from Court Lists Australia yourself. It takes effect straight away, you do not need to give us your name, email or any other detail, and nobody reviews your request first.

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How it works

1. Open the court's page and press Remove my listing above the list, or search below. Type the surname or case reference as it appears in the list.
2. Check the listing is the right one: the court, the date, the courtroom and the start time.
3. Press Remove this listing. Your browser does a short security check for a few seconds, then the listing is gone from our site.

What removal does

• The listing you chose is deleted from that day's list on this site straight away.
• If the same court list on another day shows the same matter, that copy is deleted too. We treat it as the same matter only when the name matches and so does the case or file number, or, where a list has no case number, the courtroom and the start time.
• For the next 30 days, new lists from that court will not show the same name with the same case or file number, or, where the list has no case number, the same name in the same courtroom (or at the same start time when no courtroom is given).
• Other people whose shortened name looks the same are not affected, because names are matched together with the case number or courtroom.
• Copies already saved by search engines can take a few days to refresh.

What removal cannot do

• It does not change the court's own list, the court file or the hearing. Your hearing still goes ahead and you still need to attend if you are required to.
• It does not remove reports by news outlets or other websites.
• We cannot tell you the outcome of a matter. Contact the court registry or a lawyer for that.
• If the court lists the matter again after 30 days, or in a different courtroom without a case number, it can appear again and you can remove it the same way.

Your privacy

We do not ask for, or keep, your name or contact details for a removal. To stop misuse, each visitor can make a limited number of removals per hour and per day. To count them we use a short code made from your connection with a random key that is replaced every day, so the code cannot be traced back to you once the day is over. That code is never stored with the listing you removed.

We keep a record of each removal (the court, the list date and the name as it was shown) for 180 days so the listing stays off the site and mistakes can be fixed. After 180 days the record is deleted.

If a removal was made by mistake or something else needs fixing, contact us.