Tax invoice
Practitioners who do not use ATLAS should complete a tax invoice for all claims.
Tax invoice
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 is for clients making an application for a grant of legal assistance without a lawyer, via post.
Grants of legal assistance - guide and application form
Alternatively, you can complete the accessible Word version online, and email to grants@vla.vic.gov.au
Grants of legal assistance - guide and application form (accessible version)
If a person is applying for a grant of assistance with the assistance of a lawyer, the lawyer must submit the application in .
General forms
- Financial statement (docx, 156.62 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, 148 KB) – to be completed by applicant to give VLA consent to confirm their Centrelink status
Proof of means
Civil law worksheets
- Family Violence Protection Act worksheet (doc, 206 KB)
- Personal safety intervention order worksheet (doc, 347 KB)
Child protection worksheets
Child protection worksheet – parent or third party applicant
Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 worksheet – Children’s Court (Family Division) – contested interim or final hearing exceeding 10 days
- Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (child protection) worksheet – child applicant (doc, 234 KB)
- Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (child protection) worksheet – responding to appeals or judicial review (doc, 213 KB)
- Cumulative time worksheet – current out-of-home care (doc, 66.5 KB)
- Cumulative time worksheet – past out-of-home care (doc, 45.5 KB)
Commonwealth family law worksheets
- Early intervention and dispute resolution (adult) (doc, 378.5 KB)
- Information or location orders (Guideline 2.2) (doc, 243.5 KB)
- Litigation adults (Guidelines 1.3 & 1.11) (doc, 394.5 KB)
- Recovery order (Guideline 2.1) (doc, 244.5 KB)
- Request for overcap funding worksheet (docx, 131.94 KB)
- Paternity testing worksheet (doc, 212.5 KB)
Criminal law
Quality tools
- Brief analysis and case strategy (docx, 195.77 KB)
- Committal report and trial preparation plan (docx, 191.47 KB)
- Brief and handover to counsel (docx, 190.25 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)
Court of Appeal checklists and fact sheets
- Merits advice checklist and template (doc, 481.5 KB)
- Merits advice checklist only (doc, 268 KB)
- Merits advice fact sheet only (doc, 241 KB)
- Merits advice template only (doc, 263.5 KB)
Other checklists
- Major Criminal Cases Framework compliance guide (docx, 191.5 KB)
- Post-committal negotiation checklist (docx, 189.33 KB)
Crime – worksheets
Medical expert report worksheet
Contested committals exceeding four days
County Court appeal worksheet
Instructing/co-counsel worksheet and attendance record
Summary crime worksheet – state guilty
Youth crime worksheet
Crime – additional preparation
Medical expert report worksheet
Preparation fees worksheet – junior counsel
Preparation fees worksheet – counsel
Preparation fees worksheet – solicitor
Civil/coronial inquest – additional preparation
Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – counsel
Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – senior counsel
Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – solicitor
Consolidation of criminal charges, traffic prosecutions, bail applications – worksheets
More information
If you have any questions about these forms and worksheets, see Contact us.
Reviewed 25 May 2023