Tax invoice
Practitioners who do not use ATLAS should complete a tax invoice for all claims.
Tax invoice
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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
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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)
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If a person is applying for a grant of assistance with the assistance of a lawyer, the lawyer must submit the application in ATLAS.
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.
VLA Client Centrelink consent and declaration-filenote
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The practitioners will also be required to complete their own declaration and maintain it on their file.
Application for legal assistance – telephone declaration record
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General forms
- Financial statement (docx, 156.62 KB)(opens in a new window) – to be completed to update an applicant's or grant recipient's financial details
- Recipient-created tax invoice agreement (doc, 55 KB)(opens in a new window) – 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)(opens in a new window) – to be completed by applicant to give VLA consent to confirm their Centrelink status
Proof of means
Civil law worksheets
Family violence worksheet – Applicants
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Family violence worksheet – Affected family members
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Family violence worksheet – Respondents
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Personal Safety Intervention Order Matters Worksheet
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Child protection worksheets
Child protection worksheet – parent or third party applicant
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Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 worksheet – Children’s Court (Family Division) – contested interim or final hearing exceeding 10 days
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- Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (child protection) worksheet – child applicant (doc, 234 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Children, Youth and Families Act 2005 (child protection) worksheet – responding to appeals or judicial review (doc, 213 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Cumulative time worksheet – current out-of-home care (doc, 66.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- 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)(opens in a new window)
- Information or location orders (Guideline 2.2) (doc, 243.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Litigation adults (Guidelines 1.3 & 1.11) (doc, 394.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Recovery order (Guideline 2.1) (doc, 244.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Request for overcap funding worksheet (docx, 131.94 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Paternity testing worksheet (doc, 212.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
Criminal law
Quality tools
- Brief analysis and case strategy (docx, 195.77 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Committal report and trial preparation plan (docx, 191.47 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Brief and handover to counsel (docx, 190.25 KB)(opens in a new window)
Indictable checklists for non-sexual offences
- Allocation checklist (doc, 225 KB)(opens in a new window)
- After brief served checklist (doc, 263.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Before committal checklist (doc, 255 KB)(opens in a new window)
- After committal to trial checklist (doc, 289.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Plea checklist (doc, 248.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Pre-trial checklist (doc, 275.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Post-plea checklist (doc, 227.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
Indictable checklists for sexual offences
- Allocation checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 228 KB)(opens in a new window)
- After brief served checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 281.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Before committal checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 274 KB)(opens in a new window)
- After committal to trial checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 303 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Plea checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 252.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Pre-trial checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 291 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Post-plea checklist (sexual offences) (doc, 236.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
Court of Appeal checklists and fact sheets
- Merits advice checklist and template (doc, 481.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Merits advice checklist only (doc, 268 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Merits advice fact sheet only (doc, 241 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Merits advice template only (doc, 263.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
Other checklists
- Major Criminal Cases Framework compliance guide (docx, 191.5 KB)(opens in a new window)
- Post-committal negotiation checklist (docx, 189.33 KB)(opens in a new window)
Crime – worksheets
Medical expert report worksheet
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Contested committals exceeding four days
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County Court appeal worksheet
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Instructing/co-counsel worksheet and attendance record
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Summary crime worksheet – state guilty
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Summary crime worksheet – state not guilty
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Youth crime worksheet
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Crime – additional preparation
Medical expert report worksheet
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Preparation fees worksheet – junior counsel
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Preparation fees worksheet – counsel
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Preparation fees worksheet – solicitor
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Civil/coronial inquest – additional preparation
Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – counsel
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Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – senior counsel
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Civil/coronial inquest fees worksheet – solicitor
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Consolidation of criminal charges, traffic prosecutions, bail applications – worksheets
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More information
If you have any questions about these forms and worksheets, see Contact us.
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