Table of contents
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Table of contents
- 1 – Introduction
- 2 – Types of matters that may be assisted
- 3 – Criminal law guidelines
- 4 – Commonwealth family law and child support guidelines
- 5 – Commonwealth civil law guidelines
- 6 – State family guidelines
- 7 – State civil law guidelines
- 8 – Standard grants assessment process
- 9 – Simplified grants assessment process
- 10 – Referral and practitioner panels
- 11 – Means test
- 12 – Commonwealth merits test
- 13 – State reasonableness test and interests of justice test
- 14 – Special circumstances
- 15 – Applying for a grant of legal assistance
- 16 – Decision to grant or refuse assistance
- 17 – Reconsideration and review of decisions
- 18 – Standard terms and conditions
- 19 – Contributions and overdue payments
- 20 – Abandoning legal assistance
- 21 – Finalising grants of legal assistance
- 22 – Allocation of work to lawyers and law firms
- 23 – Payments to lawyers and service providers
- 24 – Compliance reviews
- 25 – Privacy protection
- 26 – Complaints and feedback
- Topic index
- Invoices, worksheets and forms
- Contact us
Irrevocable authority
An irrevocable authority is a deed which allows VLA to secure costs against an assisted person’s interest in property (including money) which is not held by the assisted person at the time of providing a grant of legal assistance.
Examples where this might occur may be:
- where the assisted person expects to receive proceeds of sale of property
- where the assisted person cannot access funds held in an account which is part of a dispute
- where the assisted person expects to receive money as a lump sum in the future, such as from a payment for damages or as a beneficiary of a will.
VLA will require the assisted person and their lawyer to sign the deed assigning such interest to VLA as security for the cost to VLA of providing the assisted person with legal assistance.