In this section

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