Invoice, forms and worksheets

Invoice, forms and worksheets
Tax invoice
Practitioners who do not use ATLAS should complete a Tax invoice (pdf, 21.69 KB) for all claims. The fees outlined in Payments to lawyers and service providers.
Grants of legal assistance – guide and application form
The Grants of legal assistance – guide and application form (pdf, 519.54 KB) is for clients making an application for a grant of legal assistance without a lawyer.
If a person is applying for a grant of assistance with the assistance of a lawyer, the lawyer must submit the application in ATLAS.
General forms
- Financial statement (pdf, 103.19 KB) – to be completed to update an applicant's or grant recipient's financial details
- Recipient-created tax invoice agreement (doc, 55 KB) – to be completed and signed by practitioners submitting applications, requests for extensions of assistance or request for payment to Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) using electronic lodgement
- Centrelink consent and authority form (doc, 201 KB) – to be completed by applicant to give VLA consent to confirm their Centrelink status
Civil law worksheets
- Family law worksheet (doc, 220.5 KB)
- Family Violence Protection Act worksheet (doc, 206 KB)
- Infringement cases worksheet (doc, 209.5 KB)
- Personal safety intervention order worksheet (doc, 210.5 KB)
Family law worksheets
- Children's Court (Family Division) worksheet (doc, 212.5 KB)
- Children's Court (Family Division) worksheet – hearing funding exceeding 5 days (doc, 216.5 KB)
- Family law worksheet (doc, 220.5 KB)
- Paternity testing worksheet (doc, 212.5 KB)
- Proof of means worksheet (doc, 210.5 KB)
- Request for overcap funding worksheet (doc, 110 KB)
Criminal law
Quality tools
- Brief analysis and case strategy (doc, 124 KB)
- Committal report and trial preparation plan (doc, 51.5 KB)
- Handover to counsel (doc, 44.5 KB)
Indictable checklists for non-sexual offences
- Allocation checklist (doc, 225 KB)
- After brief served checklist (doc, 263.5 KB)
- Before committal checklist (doc, 255 KB)
- After committal to trial checklist (doc, 289.5 KB)
- Plea checklist (doc, 248.5 KB)
- Pre-trial checklist (doc, 275.5 KB)
- Post-plea checklist (doc, 227.5 KB)
Indictable checklists for sexual offences
- Allocation checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 228 KB)
- After brief served checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 281.5 KB)
- Before committal checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 274 KB)
- After committal to trial checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 303 KB)
- Plea checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 252.5 KB)
- Pre-trial checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 291 KB)
- Post-plea checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 236.5 KB)
Other checklist
Worksheets
- Bail traffic consolidation worksheet (doc, 221 KB)
- Criminal trials and pleas worksheet (doc, 207.5 KB)
- Contested committals – exceeding two days worksheet (doc, 230.5 KB)
- County Court appeal worksheet (doc, 205 KB)
- Instructing/co-counsel worksheet and attendance record (doc, 81 KB)
- Medical/psychologist/psychiatrist report worksheet (doc, 232 KB)
- Preparation fees worksheet (xls, 38.5 KB)
- Proof of means worksheet (doc, 215 KB)
- Solicitor preparation fees worksheet (xls, 43.5 KB)
- State and Commonwealth committals worksheet (doc, 55.5 KB)
- State and Commonwealth criminal trials worksheet (doc, 207.5 KB)
- Summary crime worksheet – state guilty (doc, 231.5 KB)
- Youth crime worksheet (doc, 206.5 KB)
