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
- Disbursements
- Cost ceilings
- Stage of matter limits
- Lump sum fees
- Costs payable in criminal law matters
- Costs payable in State family matters
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Costs payable in Commonwealth family law matters
- Principles applying to family law matters generally
- Fee Schedule 1L – Family law stage of matter limits
- Fee Schedule 3 – Counsel’s fees in family law matters
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Costs payable in family law matters for events prior to 18 February 2008
- Costs payable in civil law matters
- 24 – Compliance reviews
- 25 – Privacy protection
- 26 – Complaints and feedback
- Topic index
- Invoices, worksheets and forms
- Contact us
Costs payable in family law matters for events prior to 18 February 2008
The costs payable by VLA to private lawyers in family law matters for events prior to 18 February 2008 are detailed in the following:
- Table 3a – Costs payable by VLA to private lawyers in family law matters (not including child representative/independent children’s lawyer proceedings) for events prior to 18 February 2008
- Table 4a – Costs payable to private lawyers in child representative/independent children’s lawyer proceedings in the Family Court prior to 18 February 2008
- Table 5a – Costs payable to private lawyers in child representative/independent children’s lawyer proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court prior to 18 February 2008
- Table 6a – Costs payable to counsel or lawyer advocate in child representative/independent children’s lawyer proceedings in the Federal Magistrates Court and Family Court prior to 18 February 2008.
For events after 18 February 2008, see Fee Schedule 1L – Family law stage of matter limits.