Table of contents
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Table of contents
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1 – Introduction
- Victoria Legal Aid services
- Handbook overview
- National Commonwealth legal aid guidelines
- 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 – Public interest and strategic litigation
- 9 – Standard grants assessment process
- 10 – Simplified grants assessment process
- 11 – Referral and practitioner panels
- 12 – Means test
- 13 – Commonwealth merits test
- 14 – State reasonableness test and interests of justice test
- 15 – Special circumstances
- 16 – Applying for a grant of legal assistance
- 17 – Decision to grant or refuse assistance
- 18 – Reconsideration and review of decisions
- 19 – Standard terms and conditions
- 20 – Contributions and overdue payments
- 21 – Abandoning legal assistance
- 22 – Finalising grants of legal assistance
- 23 – Allocation of work to lawyers and law firms
- 24 – Payments to lawyers and service providers
- 25 – Compliance reviews
- 26 – Privacy protection
- 27 – Complaints and feedback
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1 – Introduction
- Topic index
- Invoice, worksheets and forms
- Contact us
National Commonwealth legal aid guidelines
The National Commonwealth legal aid guidelines document contains the full text of all guidelines for Commonwealth law matters, including those guideline that Victoria Legal Aid does not currently fund. These guidelines have been agreed by all Australian legal aid commissions, effective from 5 July 2010.
| National Commonwealth legal aid guidelines - PDF, 88.0kb Full text of all guidelines for Commonwealth law matters. |