Tax invoice
Practitioners who do not use ATLAS should complete a tax invoice for all claims.
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.
Alternatively, you can complete the accessible Word version online, and email to grants@vla.vic.gov.au
If a person is applying for a grant of assistance with the assistance of a lawyer, the lawyer must submit the application in .
Obtaining verbal consent from clients
We recognise that clients have many preferences for communication. Consent for Centrelink records can be provided by telephone. Practitioners must keep a complete record on how verbal consent was obtained. The file note also contains authorisation for practitioners to lodge client applications through Victoria Legal Aid's ATLAS grants management system.
The practitioners will also be required to complete their own declaration and maintain it on their file.
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
- 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
Crime – additional preparation
Civil/coronial inquest – additional preparation
More information
If you have any questions about these forms and worksheets, see Contact us.
Reviewed 30 June 2023