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
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23 – Payments to lawyers and service providers
- Professional costs
- Counsels' fees
- Payments to agents
- Duty lawyer schemes
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Disbursements
- Interim claims for authorised disbursements
- Table OO – VLA rates for reimbursement of authorised disbursements/expenses
- Table Q – Expert reports and court attendances in family law matters
- Table S – Expert reports and court attendances by psychologists and psychiatrists in criminal matters
- Cost ceilings
- Stage of matter limits
- Lump sum fees
- Costs payable in criminal law matters
- Costs payable in State family matters
- Costs payable in Commonwealth family law matters
- Costs payable in civil law matters
- 24 – Compliance reviews
- 25 – Privacy protection
- 26 – Complaints and feedback
- Topic index
- Invoices, worksheets and forms
- Contact us
Table S – Expert reports and court attendances by psychologists and psychiatrists in criminal matters
Table S sets out the fixed fees payable by VLA for expert reports and court attendances by psychologists and psychiatrists in criminal matters after 18 January 2011.
For fees prior to 18 January 2011 see Table P in Fee schedule 7.
| Service provided | Fee payable for psychologist | Fee payable for psychiatrist |
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| Assessment and report with jail conference | $596 | $670 |
| Assessment and report without jail conference | $523 | $596 |
| Treating expert report | $326 | $406 |
| Supplementary report | $295 | $369 |
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Evidentiary report by a psychiatrist to establish:
Before the assisted person incurs the fee, there must be explicit factual material which confirms a reasonable expectation of an organic psychiatric condition. |
– | $789 |
| Attendance at metropolitan court – half day, including travel | $369 | $449 |
| Attendance at regional court – half day, including travel | $523 | $596 |
| Non-attendance fee | $62 | $82 |