Grants Handbook

• Appeal of a domestic violence order
• Initial family report (ICL only)
• Financial contributions (section 18) - initial contributions
• Payment rules and audit requirements
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Service
• Specialist medical procedures
• Stage one - Inspect court or department file
• Application process
• Initial social assessment report / other expert report
• District Court or Children’s Court of Queensland Appeal
• Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Parentage testing for child support (male applicants)
• Administrative Appeals Tribunal (review of decisions made by SSAT)
• Stage 1 - Dispute resolution
• Unfair dismissals
• Obtain, discharge, vary or appeal parenting orders
• Appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal
• Travel by air
• Cross-examine protected witness at trial in the Magistrates Court – DV related offence only
• Additional preparation where an accredited interpreter is engaged
• Lodging a complaint
• Summary matters (plea of guilty or trial) in the Magistrates Court
• Additional preparation in criminal law
• Psychological report
• Representation until final parenting orders are made
• Magistrates Court matters
• The review process
• Counsel in summary matters
• Attendances in person or by telephone
• Stage 2.1 - Initiate or respond to court proceedings
• Representation at the Mental Health Review Tribunal
• ATSILS
• Accommodation
• Criminal law
• Accommodation
• Review decisions made by Child Support Agency (Appeal to SSAT)
• Social assessment report
• Interpretation of family law guidelines
• Stage one - Initial assistance
• Stage two - Court ordered conference / additional family group meeting / case plan review meeting
• Client conditions
• Extraordinary cases in criminal law
• Guideline 2 - Family Dispute Resolution (FDR Services)
• Independent Children's Lawyers
• Additional preparation
• Preliminary hearing or final hearing
• End a child support agreement
• Property arbitration
• Criminal law
• Additional preparation in Domestic Violence matters
• Motor vehicle personal injury claims
• War veterans
• Stage two - court ordered conference / additional family group meeting / case plan review meeting
• What do we fund?
• Treating medical practitioner report
• All areas of law
• Additional preparation
• Attend final hearing
• Plea of guilty in the District Court, Children’s Court of Queensland or the Supreme Court
• Extraordinary cases in the Magistrates or Childrens Court
• Agents
• Legal Aid Queensland Family Dispute Resolution Conference (in-litigation)
• Assistance at QCAT - party, non-party, direct representation (child)
• Party, Non-Party, Child (direct representation)
• Child protection
• All other civil law matters
• Committal hearing (specified proceedings)
• Summary matters (non specified proceedings) - plea of guilty or trial
• Domestic violence orders
• Updated family report (ICL only)
• Child Protection matters
• Civil Law Legal Aid Scheme (CLLAS)
• Financial contributions (section 36) - retrospective contributions
• Community Legal Centres
• All other matters
• Stage two - Litigation
• Retrospective aid
• Updated or supplementary social assessment report
• Appeal to the Federal Court
• Parentage testing for child support (female applicants)
• Social Security Appeals Tribunal
• Stage 2 - Litigation
• General protections
• Appeal to the Federal Court
• Travel by car
• Counsel in summary trials (DV related offence only)
• Additional preparation where charges exceed 20
• Queensland Drug and Alcohol Court (QDAC)
• External dispute resolution
• Appeal record books in criminal law matters
• Medical specialist report
• Representation to implement final orders
• Childrens Court matters
• Exceptions to the review process and urgent reviews
• Counsel at early stages of committal proceedings
• Attendances at trial / court
• Stage 2.2 - Representation until trial directions
• Appeal a Mental Health Review Tribunal decision
• Community legal centres
• Conduct money (subpoenas)
• Family law
• Counselling sessions
• Federal Circuit Court has referred matter back to Social Securities Tribunal for rehearing
• General medical practitioner report
• Parenting disputes
• Stage one - Vary or revoke a child protection order
• Stage two - interim hearing
• Counsel at interim hearing
• Solicitor conditions
• Expensive cases in criminal law
• All other parties
• Application for amendment
• Responding to an application to enforce a child support assessment
• Representation at court for property disputes
• Committal hearing (non specified)
• Civil law
• Medical negligence claims
• Additional preparation in Child Protection matters
• Assistance in any other defence force matter
• Stage two - Interim hearings
• Applying for aid
• Pre-sentence report
• Criminal law
• Counsel at interim hearing
• Assistance after final orders
• Ex officio plea of guilty
• Extraordinary cases in the District Court / Children's Court of Queensland
• Attendances (civil law)
• Court-Based Family Dispute Resolution Conference (in-litigation)
• Appeal a QCAT decision
• Separate Representative
• Scale of fees
• Court of Appeal
• Summary matters (specified proceedings) - plea of guilty or trial
• Guideline 4 - Parenting orders
• Contravention of a court order or contempt of court (where a final order exists)
• Psychiatric assessment report (ICL only)
• Counsel in Domestic Violence matters
• Consumer protection
• Legal costs
• Preferred suppliers
• Appeal a QCAT decision
• Stage three - Prepare for contested final hearing
• Means test
• Court proceedings to obtain an order for parentage testing in child support matters
• Federal Circuit Court of Australia
• Stage 3 - Prepare for trial
• Recovery, location and/or information order (where a final order exists)
• Travel by public transport
• Cross-examine protected witness at committal hearing in the Magistrates Court or a sentence or trial in the District or Supreme Court
• Agents
• Magistrates court bail
• Court proceedings
• Co-accused policy
• Occupational therapist report
• Appeals
• District Court, Childrens Court of Queensland or Supreme Court matters
• Counsel to make a formal summary application at committal
• Attendance at a group conference in criminal law matters
• Assessment of invoices
• Interpreters
• Civil law
• Drug tests
• Committal hearing in the childrens court
• Psychiatric/medical specialist report
• Property disputes
• Stage two - Litigation
• Ownership of Legal Aid files
• Additional preparation - other
• Contravention of supervision order
• Guideline 12 - Property
• Make an application for the recovery of child support arrears
• Preservation of property (injunctive relief)
• Committal hearing (committal project)
• Family law
• Slip and fall type personal injury claims
• Agents in civil law matters
• Conditions of aid
• Psychological brief assessment and report
• Family and civil law
• Trial in the District Court, Children’s Court of Queensland or the Supreme Court
• Extraordinary cases in the Supreme Court
• Subsequent appeal to the Court of Appeal
• Applications in a proceeding
• Applications in a proceeding
• Sexual risk assessment report (ICL only)
• Providing information
• Stage four - Attend final hearing
• Forum test
• Parentage testing in child support / maintenance matters
• Stage 4 - Representation at trial
• Travel by hire car
• Consent orders
• Change in plea
• Committal hearing
• Counsel in criminal law matters
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Criminal law appeals
• Counsel to cross-examine witnesses at committal
• Attendance to drafting or perusing documents, letters and statements etc
• Correspondence with Legal Aid Queensland
• Nature and extent of funding
• Interpreter fees
• Prison visits
• Childrens Court bail
• Independent Children's Lawyer
• Stage 3 - Prepare for contested final hearing
• Agent fees
• Annual reviews
• Applications for adult child maintenance
• Financial enforcement proceedings (where a final order exists)
• Disbursements
• Complexity in civil law matters
• Counsel in civil law matters
• Professional negligence claims
• Fees and payments
• Psychological long assessment and report
• Disbursements
• Agent fees
• District Court and Childrens Court of Queensland bail
• Counsel fees (family law)
• Dangerous prisoners
• High Court of Australia Appeal
• Psychological report
• Domestic violence
• Your solicitor
• Stage five - appeal interim/final order
• Assessment process
• Stage 5 - Appeals
• International child abduction
• Travel for clients in order to give effect to a recovery order
• Co-accused in criminal law matters
• Re-opening a sentence in the Magistrates Court
• Expert reports in criminal law matters
• General medical practitioner report
• Mental Health Court
• Counsel to make bail application in the Supreme Court
• Attendances by clerks
• Counsel fees
• Outlays/disbursements
• Process servers
• Re-opening a sentence in the Childrens Court
• Psychological report
• Child support/maintenance disputes
• Stage four - Attend final hearing / Post final orders assistance
• Appeals
• Expert reports in family law matters
• Applications for child support / child maintenance where the paying parent lives overseas
• Transfer of property (where a final order exists)
• Wills / estate / survivorship claims
• Clause code search
• Neuropsychological assessment and report
• Filing fees
• Supreme Court bail
• Counsel fees (civil law)
• Application for pardon
• Medical specialist report
• Employment law
• Changing your solicitor
• Representation at QCAT
• Family dispute resolution conference after proceedings have commenced
• Specialist medical procedures involving children
• Definition of a new matter (summary matters only)
• Expert witnesses in criminal law matters
• Senior Counsel, Queen's Counsel or dual counsel
• Attendance on prison visits and visits to other places of confinement (not the watch-house)
• Disputed accounts
• Travel
• Process servers, court filing agents and bailiff fees
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Direct representation of children
• Stage five - Appeal an interim or final child protection order
• Filing fees
• Vary an overseas maintenance liability (carer and children live overseas)
• Property Mediation Pilot
• Work related personal injuries claims
• Counsel reading fees in civil law matters
• Parentage testing
• Re-opening a sentence in the higher courts
• Filing fees (family law)
• Allocating a solicitor
• CCC or ACC criminal investigations hearings
• Psychiatric report
• Occupational therapist report
• Equal opportunity and discrimination
• Allocating a solicitor to an interstate client
• Duty lawyer fees
• Multiple grants of aid policy - committal and higher court matters
• Attendances relating to any other work undertaken
• Examination of solicitor's files
• Report writers and other professionals
• Photocopying
• Divorce or nullity of marriage
• Assistance at QCAT
• Expert witnesses
• Appeal a decision of Social Security Appeals Tribunal (SSAT) to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia
• Expensive cases for civil law matters
• Test case / public interest cases
• Review of decisions
• Medical specialist (excluding psychiatrist)
• Expert witnesses
• Dietrich applications
• Fixed sundries / disbursement fees (family law)
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Extradition proceedings
• Conflict of interest
• Expensive case matters
• Transcripts in criminal law matters
• Youth justice conferencing
• Attendance to view the scene / site visit
• Financial contributions made by clients
• Travel time
• Spousal maintenance disputes
• Departure orders
• Expert reports in civil law matters
• Service providers
• Other reports
• Expert reports
• Professional fees in family and civil law matters
• Double Jeopardy exception application
• General medical practitioner report
• Inquests
• Failed to appear - three month rule
• Vacating a plea in criminal law matters
• Cross examine protected witness
• Court ordered costs
• Travel expenses
• Commonwealth Family Violence and Cross-Examination of Parties Scheme
• Stay orders
• Expert witness fees for civil law matters
• Cancellation or non-attendance fees
• Solicitor fees (family law)
• Brisbane and Ipswich District Court Sexual Violence Case Management Pilot
• Mental health matters
• Fixed fee summary grants of aid
• Waiting time in criminal law matters
• Proforma invoices
• Transcripts in civil law matters
• Waiting time
• DNA historic case review
• Migration
• Multiple grants of aid guidelines (higher court criminal law matters only)
• Legal advice
• Waiting time in civil law matters
• Domestic violence – Initial grant of aid (civil law)
• Brisbane and Ipswich District Court Sexual Violence Case Management Pilot
• National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) Appeals
• Negotiation fees
• Payment of proforma invoices
• Extraordinary case grant for Dangerous Prisoner matters
• Other Federal and High Court proceedings
• Professional fees in criminal law matters
• Research
• Peace and good behaviour
• Preparation and attendances
• Scope of the grant of aid
• Proceeds of crime
• Queensland Drug and Alcohol Court
• Seeking payment from clients
• Social security and other commonwealth benefits
• Waiting time
• Work undertaken prior to aid approval date
• Veteran matters
• Youth justice conferencing
• Work undertaken due to a mistake of a solicitor or counsel
• Workers' compensation
• Sexual Assault Counselling Privilege (Counselling Notes Protect)
• Meriba Omasker Kaziw Kazipa (Torres Strait Islander Traditional Child Rearing Practice) Matters
• Application to alter the record of sex
• Youth transfer to adult custody