Well I’m lost too. You “used” to be able to access the form controller from the controller. However, I can’t get it to work at all anymore - even when using $parent.
@mhartington : Do you know of something that would cause this? Did AngularJS change to prevent it?
See : http://codepen.io/calendee/pen/jKFhp?editors=101
I “should” be able to access $scope.testForm from the controller, but can’t.